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CrunchPad Turns Into JooJoo

by Eric on December 10, 2009

The CrunchPad has been reincarnated as JooJoo.  Instead, Fusion Garage (the company that was involved with the CrunchPad design along with TechCrunch) issued a press statement and showed off the new JooJoo device on Monday, December 7, 2009.

In the above video from Cnet,  you can see the capacitive touch design and just how thin this thing is.  Overall, it looks to be a very promising device if it doesn’t get killed in litigation.  However, seeing as how Michael Arrington has yet to produce a contract that Fusion Garage entered into with him, he may not have much of a leg to stand on after all.  If there’s really no contract between Arrington and Fusion Garage, this debacle comes across as a big black eye for Arrington’s image and leaves him looking not-so-bright in front of the huge startup following on TechCrunch.  Interestingly, both TechCrunch and CrunchGear were silent on Monday after the JooJoo was unveiled. [click to continue…]

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The CrunchPad Lands in the Deadpool

by Eric on December 3, 2009

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Sadly, the CrunchPad is no more.  There have been a lot of haters directing their spite toward either the product or Michael Arrington and, while I don’t agree with everything Arrington has to say, I was genuinely looking forward to this product.

As with many products and startups, fundamental differences in business partners’ ideas (and, perhaps a bit of greed) killed the CrunchPad.

Arrington’s full rundown on the death of the CrunchPad is here.  John Biggs’ take is at CrunchGear.  Even if you didn’t care for the CrunchPad, both accounts are an interesting look behind the scenes.

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