What was Viewsonic thinking when they let this piece of shit go to market for thousands of unsuspecting possible customers to have to deal with? Why did they not include the Android Market on this tablet?
My Father-In-Law was diagnosed with cancer in December of 2010. I knew that he would have to endure hours and hours of chemotherapy and other treatments. He had mentioned that he had some interest in having a tablet but could not afford one. He is in his mid-seventies and lives on a fixed income. So being the excellent son-in-law that I am, I did some research and found a unanimous decision regarding the Viewsonic G-Tablet. Everyone said that the G-Tab is a piece of crap out of the box. It must be rooted first to fill in the missing apps and terrible GUI that comes with the stock unit including the Android Market.Why would a company put out a product that is so universally disdained in the condition it's shipped in is beside me? As far as hardware goes, it was very cool. It had memory card slots and usb ports, etc. Shit that the iPad doesn't have. Thats why I really wanted to make this work.
I had this tablet for 3 days and tried rooting it about 40 different ways. None of which, worked. Just go on the Internet and Google "rooting a g-tab" and you will find hundreds of sites all claiming to be the know all and end all when it comes to rooting. I did everything that was asked of me from beginning to end to no avail. I'm still not sure what I was doing wrong but I after 3 days, I wanted to throw that piece of shit against a wall and watch it explode.
Here's the worst thing about it all, I was so frustrated and pissed off. Not only because I couldn't root the damn thing but because I even had to root it at all just to make it usable. That really pissed me off. I finally ended up taking it back and bought a.............. yep, you guessed it. I got him a fucking iPad.
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