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Inside the doomed Crunchpad

Michael Arrington, the man behind Techcrunch and the Crunchpad writes today that ‘the Crunchpad is now in the Deadpool’.  It doesn’t come as a complete surprise – there wasn’t any news for quite some time, and the leaked fotos and videos had also stopped.  What is suprising, and a good a read as well, is how the project crumbled and how far they came.

According to Arrington, the Crunchpad was working and the software was stable.  There were some last minute hardware issues, mainly with the 12″ capactive touchscreen, but they still expected to launch on Nov.20 of this year.  But then a bizarre equity struggle took Techcrunch by surprise.   It seems their development partner, Fusion Garage, tried to renegotiate the terms of the development contract they had with Techcrunch at the very last minute, essentially cutting Techcrunch out.

It looks like we may still see the Crunchpad, but certainly not with the Crunchpad name.  You can read the full story at Techcrunch here.