@Wwhat That may be so about tv in europe, but I maintain my original assertion, that this shows success or failure depends on nudity.

No one wants to watch people milling about the house unless they might be naked.

One fact will determine the success or failure of this endeavor:

Will their be nudity?

Afterall Big Brother in the US is a flop, but its big in europe and australia, because of the nudity.

@Chip Indeed. I looked over the complaint, they seem to think suggesting the device have a quick boot time is some invaluable contribution.

I've seen this in my scientific work too. Some people think showing you how to use a piece of equipment or teaching you a common technique is grounds for authorship.

The fraud claim seems especially weak because they haven't shown that TC lost any money due to FG's actions. Fraud isn't just lying, and lying is not usually illegal.

And maybe he did give them some ideas, but thats irrelevant unless he had an agreement or owned a patent. Its perfectly legal to use unpatented ideas from other people who give them to you freely under no formal agreement.

Arrington seems like he wanted to be the big dog here who would make FG's dreams come true with just a smile. I am sure if FG hadn't gotten sick of him he'd be claiming he invented it. Hell, hed prolly pull a Jobs and put his name first on the patent.

This thing offers a lot that netbooks dont. There is an inherent appeal to a tablet design. The failure of them to catch on is a failure of hardware and software, not of concept. The main hardware failure of the past has been the lack of capacitive multitouch which is the only thing which gives you the input capability and, more importantly, responsiveness you need for such a device.

The second has been software, interface design is the most esoteric process in computer science and just as it took time to develop the concepts of windows and drop down menus and radio buttons, its taken time to get the interface right for a tablet.

The Joojoo (and its a fine name, no dumber sounding than "iPod" or "Boxee" or "Macintosh" or "Google", the point is you remember it), has some nice looking hardware. Its capable of doing anything you want to do software-wise. The software (while I admire its moden design) looks like beta and lacks what we expect.

But, as the iPhone has taught us, software problems are not such a big deal when there is a solid hardware/design foundation. When the iPhone first came out it cost $500, ran no apps, was SEVERELY deficient in even basic phone features, and people practically killed each other to get it. I know, its Apple, but over the course of a a few years its become an amazing product. Even a non-fanboy would want one.

I actually think it will probably be a very niche market when it comes out, but once the hacks come along (new OSes, expanded memory) and FG responds to those hacks by making them features (like Apple did with the App Store, which was up until then, a hack) the device will come into its own.

So far this OS looks essentially identical to ChromeOS in capability, except it doesn't come with links to Google products as default.

I would love to have one, it would be a great document reader (since I can read pdf's in print-size). I think this is the most undersold part of the device.

I just hope you people don't inseminate your trousers when the iTablet comes out (costing $1000) and you proclaim it the best thing ever.

@indiana I suspect this thing will not be locked down, I am certain that it will be not-too-difficult to put on your OS of choice. Bundling it with windows out of the box wouldn't work probably because it would make it over $500, I am certain FG would be trying to make this a ChromeOS device if they knew then what they know now.

@(Unverified) He had his chance to buy one. He would rather them do all the work and him take all the credit.

This is another completely unsurprising case of Arrington being full of shit. No one familiar with the tech-journalism world would be at all surprised by this. Heres a guy who talked about this project like it was some partnership between tech crunch and FG, but its clear now it was just a product that FG had already been developing, and TC was just reporting on it.

It was like if Engadget started reporting on the boxee beta as if they were actually somehow involved. TC should thank FG for allowing them to pretend they were at all involved in any way.

>and height adjustment? it tilts, adjustment not needed. if you need height adjustment, you either have the wrong size desk which can be >fixed with the simple solution of a few textbooks. i have never felt the need to adjust the height of my mac that couldn't be compensated >with a slight tilt.

Right, its just like when I got my new car. It had no tilt-wheel so I simply had to get my spine adjusted. The seat wouldnt move forward or backward either, so I simply got my legs shortened.

See, Apple computers don't fit into your world, you fit into theirs. You just need to learn to do without a 10-key, and you need to get a new desk, etc.

Is this new? If you are on say app page 2 and press the home button it slides you to page one, I don't remember it doing that before.

Look's like Billy Blaze's Bean-with-Bacon Megarocket...

http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/Bean-with-Bacon_Megarocket