The CrunchPad would’ve been an easy-to-use Web tablet, but the strange saga of its 11th—hour demise will be anything but simple. Chandra Rathakrishnan—CEO of the partner that seemingly got greedy-is about to tell his side of the story.
Michael Arrington’s ambitious project to create a super-simple web tablet is dead, drowned in a bathtub half-full of greed and selfishness. This isn’t a happy story.
Last we looked in on Michael Arrington’s ballyhooed Crunchpad, the little guy wasn’t doing so well. Wrong! Well, wrong according to Michael Arrington, anyway. Nevertheless there are assurances today that the tablet is on track and still very much alive.
Mike Arrington’s CrunchPad web tablet, already several prototypes in, is quickly bubbling to reality reports Bits: There’s going to be an announcement in July or August, and it’ll be available “as soon as possible.”
This is a rumoured “extremely recent” look at a CrunchPad prototype. What do we learn? First, the demo man says the tablet will be out by this year, “for sure.” The other is that the video guy is a klepto.
His baby prematurely splayed over all the internet, Mike Arrington pulls back the rest of the curtain on the CrunchPad web tablet. It still sounds fantastic.
