One of my major obsessions over the last year has been the CrunchPad, a pet project by Michael Arrington. Sadly yesterday he reveled on TechCrunch that CrunchPad is dead.
“It was so close I could taste it.”
That’s how Arrington started to tell the story of it’s a tragic end, as the tablet computer Crunchpad is in the Deadpool now.
The unfortunate end to CrunchPad is not due to some technical issues or financial problems but the end is a result of greed, jealousy and miscommunication as told by Arrington. Crux of the story- Partner company Fusion Garage no longer wanted to go along with TechCrunch and wanted to sell CrunchPad on their own, under their own banner. Arringoton says that both TechCrunch and Fusion Garage hold the intellectual property of CrunchPad and TechCrunch solely holds the CrunchPad trademark. So, TechCrunch plans to file multiple lawsuits against Fusion Garage and its stake holders. (Read the full melodramatic story here in detail by Arrington). The nature of the law suites is yet to be made public.
[via Tech Crunch]
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