I have been predicting an epic fail for this device since I first heard about it sometime last year. At one point I thought it may not even see the light of day, but knew the fail would come even if it did and even if it hit its original lala-land price point.

This is a perfect example of a solution looking for a problem. This same issue is why I didn't put much faith in Apple coming out with a similar device. They may come out with something tablet-like in the future, but I don't think it would be anything like this.

I can see some valuable vertical market uses for a tablet, especially one with budget-specs and of this size. But the consumer market isn't going to touch this thing at $300, let alone $499.

It's all but a guarantee that there will be more people reading about the Mike Arrington vs. Fusion Garage debacle surrounding the development of this product than there will be customers for it. You could put this thing into every Best Buy, Fry's, Bed Bath and Beyond, Walmart, Lowes and Home Depot and I'm confident it would still fail.

I'm sorry, but big tablets just aren't great for much of anything involving the web.