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Point 1) Actually I think pretty much all Android devices have been rooted.. and Most (with the exception of... drawing a blank here, it's a recent one with a passworded/encrypted bootloader...) are able to flash third party ROM's. Not just the public ones, I believe. (Not 100% though as I don't know every android device )

Point 2) Of course, I knew the G1 hardware was lacking and it likely could have been the cause of many of my problems (such as the dropping connections.. lack of resources == angry Android == Android making me frustrated.) But, device-specificness has nothing to do with me just not liking the development of it, me not liking the break from traditional linux kernels, me not liking the way compiling and building the ROM and rootfs was a PITA, etc.. All of that was independent of my G1 and done mostly on my Desktop.

The only thing I had to give props to Android for was the SDK's integration with that Emulator and also the device. That was awesome, click a single button and automatically load, deploy, and launch your developed software in either a functional emulator or directly on the phone - while watching the debug output at the same time. That is impressive.

I have emulated the same thing on the N900 using VNC, SSH, and Command Line of course.. but obviously that's not as integrated a single push-button.