I won’t deny one bit that 24 hours ago, my outlook on the JooJoo by Fusion Garage was this — crap. From the meager hardware specs to god awful UI, it had failure written all over it. On top of it all, an untimely delay meant the whole plan of beating the iPad to market was lost. A delay is never a good thing. But Fusion Garage went back to the drawing board and at least made the best of what they had, turning this seemingly downtime filled delay into a...
The JooJoo, CrunchPad, wonder tablet — call it what you want. Since the much publicized falling out between TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington and Fusion Garage’s Chandra Rathakrishnan, the JooJoo’s future has been rehashed many a time. On one hand, you have this small company putting out their own in-house creation against countless other tablets as well as the big gun Apple iPad. After seeing countless reviews full of videos and pictures, I have come...
Were you on team TechCrunch/Michael Arrington or team FusionGarage in the whole CrunchPad JooJoo drama? It doesn’t really matter how you feel as the JooJoo is coming to market. Fresh of the press, FusionGarage went live today with word of a manufacturing deal with CSL. The good thing for FG is that all up front manufacturing costs are paid for by CSL in exchange for a “single digit percentage of sales”. Well alrighty then. I’m just going to come...
Color me slightly optimistic, but reports around the JooJoo today (remember, the CrunchPad that evaporated into vaporware only to re-emerge as crapware) have it not only on track, but enjoying increased pre-orders since the iPad announcement, a new round of funding, and a South African carrier deal in the mix — quite the buffet of luck if you ask me. As far as the increased pre-order claim, Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan didn’t actually post any...
Fusion Garage and TechCrunch have been going at it for the last several days in a cut throat manner, both accusing the other of lies, deceit, and all kinds of other hurtful things. We all know what Michael Arrington and the entire ‘Crunch team think. Fusion Garage announced today that any IP property or copyright claimed by TechCrunch and Michael Arrington is “ludicrous” and simply not true. Fusion Garage CEO even goes as far as to say that Michael...
