You get what you pay for. What a surprise.

The Kindle Fire and other super-cheap tablets are reminding me of how the netbook craze began:

• Yep, it "does everything" a full size PC/tabel does, has all the features, all the checkmarks.
• Yep, it's dirt cheap.
• People buy it and then realize that:
• Yep, it's a cheap piece of junk and it is absolutely painful to use on a daily basis, and I hate touching it.

Sometimes you get what you pay for, but sometimes you get less, because you don't want to touch what you paid for.

Surely they are selling these at cost or at a small loss.
Apple must be angry over the number of people who will gift these instead of an iPad. Google must be angry because they use Android but got rid of every Google branding and income sources. RIM must be furious because they basically asked the Chinese manufacturer for the Blackberry PlayBook's hardware.