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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
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I found the Amazon-oriented part interesting. Doubtful they made that decision without Amazon's consultation. Sorry if this is old news. What does this say about Amazon's allegedly imminent, allegedly "locked-down" device? If anything.
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It's purely a financial move. Velocity was too cheap to pay the licenses to Google for use of the Google Market. Velocity devices have never used the Android market, and is one of the biggest complaints about the Cruz tablets. Velocity had until now the "Cruz Market", which blew chunks as it had very few apps. Even extremely popular ones like Angry Birds weren't available. I'd say this cost Velocity nothing, or at least significantly less than if they licensed from google.