The cheap, lounge-around-the-house tablet we knew as the CrunchPad has been pronounced dead in a very anti-climactic way. Michael Arrington’s home-grown dream was intended to be debuted at the Real-Time Crunchup on November 20th. With the end so near in sight, the developers could practically taste the sweet release of their creation to the public.
However, according to Arrington, a shocking e-mail from one of the partners on the project tried to shut Arrington and his Crunchpad team out completely, stating that the shareholders backing the project wanted to release it without any involvement by Arrington. In his post following the incident Arrington made a very good point that releasing the Crunchpad without him is like, “This is the equivalent of Foxconn, who build the iPhone, notifiying Apple a couple of days before launch that they’d be moving ahead and selling the iPhone directly without any involvement from Apple.”
Despite the lack of statement from Fusion Garage (the team partnered with Arrington), things are definitely looking shady. Arrington did say that, “We will almost certainly be filing multiple lawsuits against Fusion Garage, and possibly Chandra and his shareholders as individuals, shortly.”
Read [TechCrunch]
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