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CrunchPad bites the dust… sniff, sniff
November 30th, 2009, 10:23 am · 4 Comments · posted by Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress
Noted: The tablet computer was going to have an interesting year as influential tech news site TechCrunch decided to use its resources to build the perfect tablet, the CrunchPad.
But today, TechCrunch founder and co-editor Michael Arrington blogs that the CrunchPad is dead after shareholders for a partner on the project demanded a bit more.
…the entire project self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication.
Arrington lays it all out and it’s fascinating to read some of the behind the scenes of what brought down a tablet that geeks everywhere were looking forward to. He concludes:
“It’s a sad day at TechCrunch HQ. Hitting the publish button on this post, which makes all of this so … final … is a very hard thing to do. I’m enraged, embarrassed, and just … sad.”
Read Arrington’s post about the demise: “The end of the CrunchPad.”
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Sad, isn’t it!
I wanted something like this, and badly. There is so many uses for it.
All it needed was an inductive charger built into my coffee table, and that would have been it!
I hope they are able to resolve this, and relaunch.
Yes, hopefully. I’ll take one with wireless power too!
Honestly, even to hear it told directly from Arrington – TechCrunch’s venture into this platform seems shaky at best. There are two separate companies involved, each with separate (but temporarily aligned) interests. For whatever reason they decided to *mix* their engineering teams, expenses, and “share” in the ownership of the resulting platform. If they couldn’t see the impending disaster at this point, I’m not sure what would have made it more obvious. After the inevitable disagreement, one company decides to proceed without the other, big surprise here. Ideally, any lawsuits that TechCrunch wants to pursue against FG would be on the basis of breach of contract, not “theft of intellectual property”. Of course, that assumes there existed contracts that adequately described the rights and responsibilities of the two companies involved in the venture. In this article, Arrington seems oddly silent on that point… Entrepreneurs take note – this is what happens when you confuse friendship with business.
Doesn’t sound like much of Arrington (first thing I’d heard of him actually) is to be taken seriously. See http://tinyurl.com/ylgnfkc (Lance Ulanoff Pc mag column) for more details.
This sounds like more vapor than a real product that would have happened. This dispute was a way for it to die.