Chris Gohlke
12-03-2009, 11:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/30/crunchpad-end/' target='_blank'>http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/3.../crunchpad-end/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Our plan was to debut the CrunchPad on stage at the Real-Time Crunchup event on November 20, a little over a week ago. We even hoped to have devices hacked together with Google Chrome OS and Windows 7 to show people that you could hack this thing to run just about anything you want. We’d put 1,000 of the devices on pre-sale and take orders immediately. Larger scale production would begin early in 2010. And then the entire project self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication."</em></p><p><em><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1259806845.usr10.jpg" style="border: 0;" /></em></p><p>Too bad. This will be litigated out and we will probably still see this product. But I'm betting there will be some competitors, possibly even a tablet from Apple. But if they can still get this out at $300, it could do for the tablet arena what the netbook did to the notebook market.</p>