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GJSmith, you can always come into the sticky thread, help us make a recovery and find a way to dual-boot Ubuntu :-)
Me too, I had huge problems getting accustomed to Android. Some choices of embedded design are still a huge mystery to me, i.e. why everyone never publishes their drivers or why the warranties are so stupidly formulated (as if clicking "continue" in Windows 7 would void your warranty).
Android is a pure consumation platform for now. The Eee Transformer basically still can't be used. More than 2-fingers-multitouch is quite useless without support for gestures.
As for Google, they have a very hard job - between all the GPL and Apache, they still have to promise T-Mobile that this telephone will stay locked and it's owner enslaved to the company forever. On the other hand, they have that strange idea of quality control which keeps us from the market.
However, just getting the market installed isn't the end of the story. The market will still lock us out of most of the apps because there is not GPS, 3G and whatnots. Since developers also choose what they want to access with their apps, that means you can't for example install the official Last.fm (!). It just wouldn't show up.
When I installed the Market on a x86 port, it was quite an disappointment.
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