Exactly. That's what happened to the TouchPad. HP, presumably because of excessive optimisim, stuffed the channel past its breaking point. In response, the chan

Exactly. That's what happened to the TouchPad. HP, presumably because of excessive optimisim, stuffed the channel past its breaking point. In response, the channel revolted and was going to return TouchPads en masse before HP decided on the fire sale instead. It is also worth noting that ASUS, one of the more successful Android tablet vendors, is doing the exact opposite. There were severe shortages of the Transformer after it launched and, from what I can tell, the Transformer Prime isn't easy to get either. I think ASUS is deliberately ramping up production slowly to match demand so they don't have problems with variants that flop (like the Slider).