[planck]

I think Arrington is vastly overestimating the number of people who will actually buy a CrunchPad. It will cost more than $300, be too big to be portable, but too crippled (no keyboard, no OS, no file storage, etc.) to be anything more than a toy.

[vaksel]

he has more than 3.2 million people subscribing to the techcrunch rss feed, so the actual number of people who read techcrunch is huge. And the crunchpad will profit from the network effect.

people said the same thing about ipod, iphone and other apple products, as long as you have a following, you can sell anything at any price

[nir]

I doubt the kind of following Apple has - people spending thousands of dollars on its products, sticking with them even when their market share was marginal etc - is comparable to people regularly reading a blog.

So far, other "A list" web celebs ventures have shown that, after the initial hype, they succeed or fail based on their product's worth.

[tvon]

You sound like a Verizon executive.

[gommm]

I don't know it depends on the price point but if it's 300$ I'll probably buy it... Seems like a fun piece of hardware...

[axod]

Geeks who like buying fun hardware are a really really small market.

[pcc]

I'm not saying this isn't so -- but reading this kind of statement always reminds me of the many entrepreneurs that do end up being successful despite everyone saying it would never work.