The CrunchPad is dead, says Michael Arrington in TechCrunch. Arrington says the planned $200-$300, 12-inch touchscreen web-slate has been axed and the project has self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication.
In a long post on TechCrunch, Arrington details the sudden discovery that their manufacturing partner, Fusion Garage, was looking to cut them out of the business and threatening to push ahead without full ownership of the CrunchPad IP.
Arrington claims a wide variety of industry heavyweights were lined up — including development assistance from Intel with sweetheart pricing on Atom CPUs, a “major multi-billion dollar retailer” who offered to sell it at “zero margin,” and even venture capital firms “waiting to invest in the company.”
Looks like they’ll have to wait a little longer. Sounds like a job for Google.
i was soo looking forward to a crunchpad
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Save us, Steve Jobs. Your apple pad is our only hope.
Left by Don Park on November 30th, 2009