All of the below products launched, at the time, with poorer spec sheet features/price than their competitors, and then proceeded to annihilate said competitors:

- MacBook/Pro

- iPhone

- BlackBerry

- iPod

- Android

- Wii

When are we as the geek community going to stop worshipping the spec sheet and realize that mainstream consumers can't give two shits about it?

Is it remotely possible that an $87 tablet from eBay won't be complete garbage?

My wife has one of those $87 Android 2.2 tablets and they're near-unusable. We had to replace the clunky firmware to a real Google Marketplace rather than a Chinese knock-off. Even then, the performance was sub-par. The thing struggled to even perform the most basic UI operations. There is a market for a quality tablet at a $250 price point.