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Without going into the whole debacle, it seems to me at least that together with TechCrunch, they managed to build a product. Just that when it came close to l

Without going into the whole debacle, it seems to me at least that together with TechCrunch, they managed to build a product. Just that when it came close to launch, they royally messed things up (or whatever, let's let the courts decide). But somewhere there is a team that can build a touch screen tablet. Whether they can build a compelling offering that competes with the rest with their plans for an Android tablet, remains to be seen. I do agree though, it seems like they are leaving, according to them, not unsubstantial number of customers in the lurch. Let's see whether they continue to provide decent support to existing Joojoo customers. Although, having said that, no noise from customers for lack of support, could be there are no customers to make noise. :-)

raymondhome 16y ago
We knew that Fusion Garage did the software, but did they do the hardware? Remember that they had an ODM partner in Pegatron. Also with regards to the software, it's not like they garner positive reviews.
- iantimothy 16y ago
  That's a good question. I do concede it is rather murky how much of the existing team was responsible and how much help they got from partners like TechCrunch and Pegatron.
- nikcub 16y ago
  Hardware board design was done by Pegatron along with some contractors both in the USA and Taiwan. FG took all that IP and re-created it (or possibly just ripped it - they had the boards and most ODMs can scan them and RE the schematics) with their new ODM. Pegatron did a lot of IP work as they were sold on the TC involvement and the deals we had in the pipeline. They had very good engineering guys that worked with a guy we had in the USA. The industrial design was done by a firm in Singapore Software design and components were done by a variety of people. FG bought in contractors who did some drivers, and they had 2 FG guys who did the browser and UI It was all thrown together very quickly and the team was only really scaled up in the months leading up to FG leaving us (TC). Lots of mistakes were made on the software side, but that is a whole other story. (Note: I worked on the project while at TC)
  - raymondhome 16y ago
    Seems like FG was only doing systems integration and project management. Didn't see any IP that they came up with. They bascially outsource everything. TC might as well partner up with any Taiwanese ODM. The Taiwanese ODMs are strong in engineering and manufacturing.

raymondhome 16y ago

We knew that Fusion Garage did the software, but did they do the hardware? Remember that they had an ODM partner in Pegatron. Also with regards to the software, it's not like they garner positive reviews.

iantimothy 16y ago
That's a good question. I do concede it is rather murky how much of the existing team was responsible and how much help they got from partners like TechCrunch and Pegatron.
nikcub 16y ago
Hardware board design was done by Pegatron along with some contractors both in the USA and Taiwan. FG took all that IP and re-created it (or possibly just ripped it - they had the boards and most ODMs can scan them and RE the schematics) with their new ODM. Pegatron did a lot of IP work as they were sold on the TC involvement and the deals we had in the pipeline. They had very good engineering guys that worked with a guy we had in the USA. The industrial design was done by a firm in Singapore Software design and components were done by a variety of people. FG bought in contractors who did some drivers, and they had 2 FG guys who did the browser and UI It was all thrown together very quickly and the team was only really scaled up in the months leading up to FG leaving us (TC). Lots of mistakes were made on the software side, but that is a whole other story. (Note: I worked on the project while at TC)
- raymondhome 16y ago
  Seems like FG was only doing systems integration and project management. Didn't see any IP that they came up with. They bascially outsource everything. TC might as well partner up with any Taiwanese ODM. The Taiwanese ODMs are strong in engineering and manufacturing.