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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 5032591" data-attributes="member: 23977">That's all I'm really saying. The concept is awesome, but its current form is still too awkward for it to gain traction with the common household. Therefore it's a bit too early for "secondary" markets to start pouring R&D into it.It's like back when MP3s were starting to take off. Some of the first mp3 players were CD players that could also play burnt MP3 files. The concept was awesome: I can carry hundreds of songs on one CD! Woohoo!  But it was still to awkward to gain traction: You not only had to burn the CDs, but had to do so in a special way, and it was hard to navigate to the songs you wanted...It wasn't until Apple started offering the ipod and itunes that made MP3 players really take off. Suddenly with onboard databases it was easy to navigate to the songs you wanted, you could just buy them online instead of burning a CD, the usb interface made transferring the songs a breeze, etc.I just feel the surface lies in the same boat- It's got awesome concepts: Multi touch combined with object recognition, et al... But it's current form (a big giant coffee table thing that may or may not actually match my crate and barrel entertainment unit...) is just too awkward.</blockquote>