So what happened to the Techcrunch Web Tablet?

Tab4Michael Arrington of Techcrunch started a big buzz recently with his idea of a Net Tablet.  The blogosphere and techscape jumped on the idea of a cheap (sub $200) touch-screen slate that would be used just for working on the web.  His Net Tablet would no doubt run a form of Linux for cost purposes and provide a handheld platform for surfing the web, doing email and other online work that we geeks do so much of.  The idea was well received, the original Techcrunch article had over 800 comments in a very short time. We even covered it here.   Arrington moved the Net Tablet conversation over to TechcrunchIT where it shortly had over 1100 additional comments.  The level of commentary alone demonstrated how appealing a low cost net tablet is to a lot of folks.  Techcrunch promised this would become a real project with the creation of a developers web site coming in "just a few hours".  That was over a week ago and I haven’t heard anything else about the net tablet.  The dev site is nowhere to be found, at least it’s not been publicized if it exists.  So what’s up with the Net Tablet?  Just another pipe dream?

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