The Joo Joo tablet has been delayed by one month. “Just a day after we pondered the shipping status of Fusion Garage’s JooJoo tablet, the company’s come clean and told us shipping will delayed to March 25 because of a manufacturing issue with the tablet’s 12.1-inch capacitive screen. Yep, it looks like it’s going to be at least 27 more days until you’ve got a JooJoo of your very own – which means, of course, that Fusion Garage will now be trying to launch this thing during the same week Apple’s scheduled to launch the iPad.”
They’re screwed.
Death by Joo Joo?
Why? I’m looking forward to the Joo Joo far more than a stretched iPhone.
“it’s bulky compared to the svelte iPad, offers half the battery life and a fourth of the storage of the cheapest iPad. And it doesn’t offer 3G or access to anything like Apple’s 140,000 apps”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?&entry_id=5806…
That JooJoo thingie uses Ubuntu Linux (at least according to Wikipedia), so there should be way more apps available than in the App Store.
Edited 2010-03-01 01:59 UTC
They were screwed from the beginning anyway. A giant, $500 web browser? With no 3g or the possibility of running anything native? Stupid.
Shouldn’t that in their case be described as, quoting Douglas Adams, “one whole joojooflop situation” ?
Coincidence? Come on. Who do you think the “investors” were behind downfall of the CrunchPad? Three hints… It’s wasn’t Pear, Orange or Banana.
Edited 2010-02-27 02:33 UTC
It’s a garage operation with some random dudes who fused together bunch of hardware parts and called it a revolution. It’s kind of a sad scene, to be honest.
But I have no sympathies for people who peddle vaporware.
Seems pretty much the same as how Apple started.
Actually, if to have a look at tablets, that are coming out, I’m more interested in Notion Ink http://www.notionink.in/adamtechspecs.php
http://www.androidtapp.com/android-tablet-gives-ipad-run-for-the-mo…
Yeah, I can’t wait to see what they do with their custom interface (and hopefully it won’t be awful, or something that can’t be turned off – vanilla Android would be fine by me).
This is an excellent move. They are getting lots of free exposure, and can basically leverage Apple’s marketing work for the “tablet concept” in general. Do you think people looking forward to iPad were following Joo Joo development on the side?
Both of these tablets are bollocks, really. Clever consumer doesn’t buy anything from the “first batch”, but see where the technology is going and let the prices fall a bit (everybody is making a tablet now, so they are prone to).
I’d wait for proper Linux tablets and ignore this locked down crap.
There’s a lot of joo joo hate. Frankly, I’m not interested in either the Joo Joo or the iPad. But what most haters don’t realize is just how mind-bogglingly difficult it can be to bring a complex hardware product to market. And garage operations are just not equipped to mass-produce something in the volumes necessary to get Chinese-sweat-shop-made prices that you get from even the likes of Apple. But based on the comments I keep seeing, you’d think that anyone interested in designing new hardware on their own should just give up before they even start. That doesn’t jive with the FOSS philosophy, and I think that people really should put more thought into supporting grass-roots hardware (even moreso if the hardware itself is FOSS), even if it costs twice as much and has less features. I may buy one just for the sake of being supportive, even if I don’t use it!