It's hard to tell exactly what that is about. At least four things come to mind...
1) The Notion Ink folks didn't have the experience to realize all that's involved in a large scale rollout of a tablet - seems pretty reasonable to me
2) The tablet is not ready or a finished product and this is going to be vaporware for a long time.
3) NVIDIA is not ready with Tegra 2, which seems to definitely be a part of the story
4) Android is not really ready for tablets, and product designers feel pressured to wait for v2.2 or later. I believe someone well-placed said something recently about watching what happens with Android on tablets in the next six months.
Maybe we'll have to wait until v2.3 and 2011 to get a real top notch Android consumer tablet to compete well with iPad?
But netbook convertibles should also be pretty stunning by the next generation or two or three of Intel chips. Despite so many disappointments, tablets with "Win 8" may even eventually even come through as a legitimate contender for the best tablets.
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