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Originally Posted by =X=
Well the word from Google is that everybody that has the Nexus 7" is using a beta release of JellyBean(4.1) and is for developers not the public.
The final release will have more features and improved stability. I'd imagine if enough folks calmer up about not liking the home screen locked in portrait mode they might add landscape mode by the time the product is released.
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Not too likely, really. Many devs have their own ideas about how things should be done, and deliberately restricting the included features that would allow one to easily get away from that vision is quite common (for example, look at Ubuntu and GNOME with their switch away from a proper desktop to Unity and Shell 3 interfaces over in the Linux world, and all the hollow justifications made to support the changes not even leaving the option to use computers the way they've been used for the last 25 years or so).
If it's not just an oversight (which, sadly, I doubt), the odds of it changing are incredibly low, thus forcing users to find UI replacements to be able to use the device in a way the average user would expect to be able to.