The price point didn't help either. Maybe $500 - $550 made sense in March 2010 when the iPad hadn't come out yet and the Android tablet market consisted of terrible Archos first generation tabs, the JooJoo, and a bunch of questionable offerings from China, and Edge was running the current version of Android with cutting edge hardware. But that price point was totally unsustainable by the beginning of 2011.

I told some friends of mine who had played with my Edge months ago but thought it was too expensive, that I'd seen Edges on eBay now for $200, and they hopped on and started bidding.

But you guys are right, the superficial focus of tech reviewers on getting the lightest, thinnest tablet possible had a lot to do with it. The current drooling over the fact that the iPad 2 is half an inch thinner than its predecessor is ridiculous, and of course no one thinks about how difficult it's going to be to protect this featherweight slab from damage (protection that comes automatically with the Edge's clamshell design).