Since this was not “advertised” as a “feature” of the Dev Phone (I considered one myself), purchases of it had no way of expecting this limited functionality. There was no indication that the Android Market would be limited in this way, so Google should make good on this. If they can’t be man enough, or if their partners won’t “let” them offer paid apps to the Dev phone, then they should offer a tradeout for owners of a Dev phone to replace it with a “real” G1 at no charge for those owners who were duped by this.

How about Google modify the market to allow developers posting apps to choose whether dev phones can have access to their apps or not.

This is a “how much do I trust my customers issue” and should be down to the developers and each individual app, not Google and a blanket ban.

The people who want to do bad things will find a way anyhow, most people want to do the right thing, I have no problem paying for apps.