For that matter, in my opinion, he isn't really talking about the traditional electronics retail channel anyway. To me, the big "mystery of the Android tablets

For that matter, in my opinion, he isn't really talking about the traditional electronics retail channel anyway. To me, the big "mystery of the Android tablets is the crappy junk you find on sale at drugstores, Bed, Bath & Beyond and who knows where else. I can't think of any reason to buy that junk, but they do keep stocking them and getting newer models (from fly-by-night companies that would go bankrupt if they evem thought about channel stuffing), so someone must be buying them. Is there just an endless supply of people willing and interested in trying out a $99 piece of junk? And the junk does keep getting better. There was a time, pre-iPad, when the baseline was Cupcake or worse. Now it is Froyo or Gingerbread, with ICS on the horizon...