[Ouya General] jhitesma:
Well, as for SU apps and file explorers - there are multiple options not all of which are free to distribute, they could have made their own but then a lot of people would remove them and install what they prefer. Or they could have licensed something that already exists - but either way that's more time and money for something that really isn't required and most users who want it are going to have their own favorites anyway and arent' going to want what comes pre-installed...so why waste the time money when they're obviously short on both given the status of their software overall. Personally I don't like having those things pre-bundled with a ROM since what the ROM creator chooses usually doesn't match what I want so I end up having to take the extra time to remove them. These are tools for power users - not tools the average joe is going to be interested in and power users know how to get what they want on there and with root wide open there's no impediment.

The Exynos processors are not bad...but I'd still rather have the Tegra. You're not going to run Tegra Zone things on the Exynos and there's just more support and dev familiarity with the Tegra. It's a high end big name and very well supported chipset and you're not going to find it at that price point anywhere but the Ouya (or maybe a used handheld device.) Not to mention the controller...while I think $50 is a bit steep for the quality of the controller - $99 for the controller and a nice bit of hardware is a better deal than I've seen even from the Chineese cheapies.

But bottom line is that's all bonus with the Ouya. The main selling point of the Ouya is that it's a game system that's ready to go out of the box which also happens to be mostly open to the point that it can serve other purposes. I freely admit that that openess was what sold me on it - I loved the idea of an open game system but I'm still not convinced that Ouya will stay viable long term - but the openess and hackability combined with the low cost made it worth the gamble to me. Basically I figured delivering the hardware seemed like a sure thing - it's the software and ecosystem that I wasn't convinced (and am still not 100% convinced) that they can pull off. So when I backed it was with the mindset of "This will be great if they can pull it off...and if not I'll have a nice stylish and fairly powerful bit of hardware I can play with for a bargain price." And so far I'm extremely happy with it and they've surpassed my admittedly limited expectations for the software and ecosystem. My one big complaint is the lack of a useful recovery which puts a big damper on the "hardware I can play with" side of things. Thankfully the stock system has kept me entertained enough I haven't had to revert to my backup plan. And I'm having a blast finally bashing bits together and getting to sit on the couch and play something I wrote with a controller on a commercially available game machine. I'm really looking forward to polishing something up enough I can share it and put it in the Ouya store - but that's still a ways off so far most of what I've come up with works a lot better with touch controls than a hardware controller...but I'm working on some ideas ;)