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The JooJoo Shows The CrunchPad Was Always A Hallucination
- brk 17y agoWow, what a lame article. JooJoo != CrunchPad because it doesn't fit Arrington's original "product idea". The Crunchpad concept was practically doomed to non-existence from Day 0. The ability to create a slick, mass-market useable web-browser tablet for $200 (or even $300) defies the current laws of marketplace economics. Until Kindles are $50 (a dead-simple device that is more or less subsidized) we are not going to see a $250 color tablet style device (or at least not one that doesn't have an RMR or advertising supported price). The CrunchPad was a neat concept, but I think that very few people ever believed a lawyer-turned-blogger with no product design experience was going to pull that one off.