On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Kostya Vasilyev <kmans...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A device manufacturer can only preinstall Market on their device is it
> passes Android certification tests.
>
> So a device without Market, at this point, may have all kinds of
> incompatible implementation weirdness (and many do - e.g. Android-based book
> readers). Installing a 3rd party application that assumes certain
> completeness of the platform to such device may not do any good at all.

Correct. One only hopes that if Amazon cooks up an Android-based
Kindle that they voluntarily adhere to the CDD and pass the CTS... and
ideally tell us that they have.

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