People like having service and support from their hardware vendor, though.

This change forced changes on the hardware vendors as well.

However, very few software or hardware vendors have done so to date.

This is a lesson that I hope other hardware vendors will learn.

If the hardware vendors do this (and none have) then that is their own decision.

A list of 80 plus independent software and hardware vendors also registered support.

The big question is which one hardware vendors should adopt for tablets.

Are you married to your hardware vendor or what?

But users will have to depend on hardware vendors to make this option possible in the first place.

Hardware vendors of the day saw different priorities; they did not focus on consistent day-to-day support.