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... due for launch next year.
Critics, however, pointed out that for CrunchPad delivering those features at the promised price and within the scheduled ... retail environment would eat into profit margins, they said.
CrunchPad never moved beyond the vaporware category. Even a prototype version ... product. Last month, Popular Mechanics named the CrunchPad to its “ten most brilliant products of 2009 ...
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... split with Michael Arrington was no surprise, and that TechCrunch didn’t actually contribute anything of value to the CrunchPad, and that’s predictably got Arrington on the warpath. In a post titled “ ... we can’t imagine how Arrington got to within three days of launching the CrunchPad without hammering out the details of who owned what.
In fact, the most notable thing about ...
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... the split with Michael Arrington was no surprise, and that TechCrunch didn't actually contribute anything of value to the CrunchPad. As you'd expect, that's got Arrington on the warpath. In a post ... and we can't imagine how Arrington got to within three days of launching the CrunchPad without hammering out the details of who owned what. In fact, the most notable thing about the ...
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... visionary/evangelist/marketing head and Fusion Garage would acquire the rights to use the Crunchpad brand and name. Personally, I don’t think the name is all that important but you seem to be somewhat attached to the ... months, giving advice on manufacturing partners and offering to sell the CrunchPad at a zero margin to help us succeed in the early days. They were also willing to pay for the ...
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... thrill of building something with a team that had the same vision. Now that’s going to be impossible.
The news of the CrunchPad’s death comes a few weeks after rumors of…the CrunchPad ... to get online from his couch. I get his desire. Well, mostly: I’ve never been entirely clear why the CrunchPad would be a better couch computer than a more typical, versatile cheap portable ...
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... McGrath/Power, could not confirm this.
Rathakrishnan is using this opportunity to tell his side of the CrunchPad controversy. It's not clear if Fusion Garage intends ... the market.
Those plans are now cast aside, at least for the moment, but it will be interesting to see what happens after the CrunchPad (or whatever Rathakrishnan intends to call it since he doesn't have the rights to ...
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... two weeks ago when Michael Arrington surfaced to indicate that the Crunchpad tablet computer was still on track for a product launch in ... -$400.
However, things have changed since that announcement as we get word that the Crunchpad will not launch. According to Arrington, the failure to launch can be directly ... geek toys.
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... class="" src=" alt="CrunchPad project ends in "greed and jealousy"& ... , the founder of the TechCrunch blogs with input from readers, is no more.
The CrunchPad project has been binned by the blogger, who states the "entire ... . Two weeks ago we were ready to publicly launch the CrunchPad. The device was stable enough for a demo. It went hours without crashing", ...
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... 8221;
It seems that James Kendrick was right when he claimed back in April that the CrunchPad “may not ever appear on the market.” His reasoning was incorrect though, Arrington did have everything in line, until he was screwed by his manufacturing partner.
The CrunchPad is dead. I never planned on buy it, but I’m still a little disappointed.
The End Of The ...
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... McGrath/Power Public Relations.
Previously:
The CrunchPad, named Popular Mechanic's 10 ... 't need it, you can always cut the price later! :)
When there was a lot of buzz about the CrunchPad many curious gadget fans asked me about their " ... 39;s more to it than that beyond demo-ware.
I also was worried about the marketing of the CrunchPad said "open source" just to get good ...
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... CrunchPad is in July 2009. I blog about it as a Singapore firm is working with TechCrunch on this CrunchPad. It is a 12-inch device without storage, has 3G and Wifi.
On first look, ... should expect ‘big news’ shortly.
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There is a video talking about CrunchPad. The video is very long. However, you can start from 39 minutes onwards to hear about the CrunchPad ...
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... events that ultimately boil down to one thing: greed.
The CrunchPad was an ambitious, brilliantly obvious idea. Who wouldn’t want ... Surf the net, watch video, play games, etc. The CrunchPad was poised to be a major competitor against Apple’s ... But the dream has ended.
According to the story posted on TechCrunch, the CrunchPad was being designed by a small startup called Fusion Garage, ...
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... over the past year-and-a-half or so, whenever someone asked me what I thought about the CrunchPad, my answer was pretty much always the same: you’ll never get your hands on one. Call me ... post on the matter, you quickly realize that something went on, and it was something strange and sudden. Either way, the CrunchPad is dead. No worries, though, 2010 will be the year that the tablet hits the ...
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... supposed to come with a fast Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, WiFi and 3G is never going to come out, according to CrunchPad boss and superblogger Michael Arrington. Just two weeks ago, we reported that the CrunchPad was still coming out, but now, you can put it in the ground.
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There’s already been quite a bit of ink spilled over the demise of the CrunchPad but I thought I’d add a few drops. My opinion is this: the CrunchPad was ... or ignore it at their peril. It would behoove the New York Times, for example, to build something like the CrunchPad for consumption of the newspaper. They won’t do it because it is seemingly off-mission. This is what separates ...
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