Arrington's CrunchPad Dies

adeelarshad82 writes "Michael Arrington announced the death of the CrunchPad on Monday morning in a blog post heavily spiced with angst and drama. According to Arrington, the Crunchpad, a 12-inch Web tablet expected to be priced at about $300, was just days away from launch. At the last minute, however, Arrington received an email from Chandra Rathakrishnan, the chief executive of manufacturing partner Fusion Garage, apparently trying to cut Arrington out of the product on the eve of the launch. Fusion Garage, according to Arrington, wanted to market the device itself under its own name; which obviously was the deal breaker. Arrington claims that the company had overcome obstacles at every stage in the business such as deals with Intel, retail launch, securing venture capital and angel investments. Interesting bit is that some were already speculating that the Crunchpad was not real."

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Re:Arrogant Power Play

[Dogtanian]

I would have been a customer for this device, but after this I will not now or ever buy anything under the Fusion Garage brand.

For some reason, the link where Fusion Garage gives their side of the story is missing in my browser. Can you provide me with it? I know you must have it, because only an idiot would make a kneejerk response like that based on having heard only one side of a story like this.

(And no, if Arrington turns out to be the one in the right here, you're still an idiot for jumping to conclusions without having heard all the evidence first).