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If you don't know, Fusion Garage is the company we were working with on the Crunchpad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchpad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crun
by nikcub 15y ago
If you don't know, Fusion Garage is the company we were working with on the Crunchpad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchpad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchpad
they went off on their own, released the JooJoo and then the Grid10 tablet, and then things ended in a way nobody expected.
There is still an ongoing lawsuit between Techcrunch and Fusion Garage (I have no idea what happens to that now, a lot of money was spent on lawyers and the trial was scheduled for next year)
They have taken fully paid-up pre-orders for the Grid10 tablet, so those customers are out now (this is why Paypal doesn't allow pre-orders). I also feel for some of the employees who were genuinely smart and good people.
- kposehn 15y agoInteresting, thanks for commenting about it. If you don't mind, any thoughts on the company or the product?
- nikcub 15y agoI sniffed out that Fusion Garage were more talk than substance when I went to Singapore to see them the first time. I wrote an email, which is now part of the legal case, warning about it. The entire story is interesting and funny, I will write it up at some point (not soon). The product was ok, you can see the pictures of the last prototype we worked on here: http://nikcub.appspot.com/posts/crunchpad-proof-obviousness-in-ipad-design http://nikcub.appspot.com/posts/crunchpad-proof-obviousness-... It takes a long time to polish a hardware product to the point that it is ready for mass market. FG rushed the product out, so it didn't surprise me that it wasn't well received. But apparently there are a loyal group of hobbyists who like the JooJoo If the partnership persisted, we would have likely switched to an ARM based board and chipset after the first batch of orders. The Intel Atom stuff didn't live up to expectations. I think we could have built something really nice and useful.