Joojoo, we hardly knew ye; Fusion Garage’s tablet is discontinued

By on Nov 11, 2010 at 9:23 AM
Tablets November 11, 2010


First it was called the CrunchPad, then it was called joojoo… now it’s just called dead. Fusion Garage founder Chandrashekar Rathakrishnan confirmed to e27 on Thursday that the company’s virgin tablet offering has been discontinued. The news is hardly shocking following the revelation earlier this year that only 90 people pre-ordered the device. Originally conceived by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, the joojoo was a large-form Linux tablet that was initially envisioned to be little more than a cheap Web browsing tool. Arrington formed a partnership with Fusion Garage to build the device, but it ended in a messy divorce and a DOA $500 tablet. While the joojoo was quick to find its way to the gadget graveyard, Fusion Garage will apparently live on. Rathakrishnan confirmed rumors that a joojoo follow up is in the works — several, in fact — and that Android will be the company’s operating system of choice moving forward.

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  • http://rmbo47.myopenid.com/ rmbo47

    Some fools even called it an “iPad Killer”. Now we can just call it “gone”.

  • Chuck

    I think what you meant to say was: “Originally conceived by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington” and subsequently stolen by Fusion Garage.

  • http://twitter.com/ElectroCar Michael Lemus

    Wow this guy has cajones. I think if I had launched a product and it only sold 90 orders, my hurt pride would get me out the game in a hurry. I suppose thats why I work a normal job and have not turned into an entrepreneur. I dont expect to see JooJoo as a player in the game at all with 8 million in funding. Granted 8 million is a lot but with major players like Samsung and Apple in the game it would be pretty hard for them to make a decent product. AND if they even try to launch an Android tablet with NO official App marketplace then they should just slap themselves and call it quits.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/PACMan3000/ Paul A. Chapel

    Very bad JooJoo. Very bad.

  • http://twitter.com/MattSTKC Matthew H.

    wanna bet that the joojoo 2 with Android will be the first real Android tablet contender?

    It’ll have Gingerbread, it already has decent specs, all they have to do is build in video chat capabilities and it’s a decent iPad alternative.

    • Anonymous

      Even if the hardware is the most amazing magical thing ever when its released, i wouldn’t buy the Joojoo 2 purely because the “owner” flat out stole the product, lied about availability and sales numbers and in general seems like a scumbag.

      I think that the upcoming Gingerbread HTC, Motorolla and Notion Ink tablets are the top contenders.

  • Anonymous

    I doubt anyone is going to attend the funeral…

  • Norm

    Had they worked with DROID and VZW they might have been more successful. However they decided to ignore the most successful business dynamo ever in the tech world and have failed. DROID FTW!

  • Marcus Christopher McFann

    Why are these guys so slow? If it was a Linux based project using a standard stack, just go forward with MeeGo as a hardware partner. You could use the Intel App Up or Ovi Store with a little negotiating. They spent too much on OS, instead of looking for an option that was available in the open world.

    • http://rmbo47.myopenid.com/ rmbo47

      Yup. Re-inventing the wheel. And in a world where timing is everything, this was a fatal mistake.

  • Anonymous

    i said the joo joo was poo poo before…this article proves it

  • http://rendion.myopenid.com/ render

    Too bad, it looks nicer than android

  • http://www.gauravgupta.in Gaurav Gupta

    I liked the original idea as Arrington perceived it. I think they would have done much better had they continued to stick around with TechCrunch.

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