You proved my point.

The Pepper Pad is a device which doesn't have a market, exactly like a techie driven product. Someone built it under the delusion that "if you build a better mouse trap, the world will beat a path to your door". Not a lot of people are beating a path to their door, because no one has a need for that device. Technologically, ergonomically, etc. it's a great thing. What's the market?

The Foleo was canceled because the marketing people realized it didn't have a market, regardless of whether or not it would have been a techie novel device. (though we could argue about whether or not their realization was accurate, Eee might have proven them wrong, but the point is: without a marketing vision, the marketing people didn't have a product they could sell, so they yanked it without regard to whether or not it was a technologically sound device ... because they didn't believe they could sell it)