That's your mantra and it may well be the case but I would not be so resolute. The tablet is a reference design, not much extra development needed. A few iterations of the circuit board, perhaps. Two months' worth of salary for one hardware guy. The OS is pretty much done as well. OS 2.0, although the tablet is the usual excuse, was not made for the tablet. It was made in parallel with the tablet. In any case, the tablet could have been shipped with 1.0. The only thing missing was landscape support.

I work for a small IT company. We produce our own hardware and software. Embedded world so no touchscreens and no Linux but that only makes the development harder. We have 64KB at our disposal, not 1GB and a convenient excuse, "it's Android eating all your RAM". Plus we have other challenges stemming from our subject matter (IoT). Yet we manage with one hardware guy and 7 software guys and gals. In my world, the money from the IGG campaign would have been plenty.

Perhaps our esteemed Stskeeps could enlighten us? He seems to hang around here these days.