Submitted by “Ah, JooJoo, we hardly knew ye. That 0.2.4 firmware update did a number on your speed woes, but alas, it wasn’t enough. Fusion Garage founder Chandrashekar Rathakrishnan told e27 that the tablet didn’t meet sales expectations and that, despite his rant against the iPad business model, people apparently do want those ‘non-web experiences’, in his words. But like all good soap operas, this one still goes on: Rathakrishnan confirmed the company is still going, meaning there’s at least one new project in the pipeline, and yes, there’s also still a lawsuit that’ll stay alive and kicking.”
one whole joo joo flop situation to me.
…which is sad as it seemed a better tablet specs-wise (and as to the connectivity too) than the ipad.
Which is more proof, if we needed it, that specs aren’t the most important part of a product’s design. The better specs and connectivity did it no good since *everything* had to be done on the web with that thing, and the faster processor was paired with a small battery giving it roughly 3 hours of battery which the constant need for connectivity shortened further. My netbook, by comparison, gets a good 12 hours and the iPad I know gets at least 10 depending on what you’re doing at the time. It seemed like a rush product with very little actual thought put into it.
So essentially, it had bad specs.
One of the reaseons JooJoo failed is because nobody took them seriously, and they completely failed their launch by making it ridiculously expensive inititally. I think it was around 300eur towards the end, i.e. pretty cheap (if it was actually possible to buy the device).
All in all, it seemed like a scam device more than a real product people would buy.
I wanted one but had one or two questions, and I couldn’t get a response nor was there (at the time) any obvious way of buying it (there may have been a buy button, but I wanted to see information like costs, options, and shipping rates, though I don’t remember even a way to buy it from the site).
Perhaps the vaporware condensed somewhere, but not where I could access it.
Making it hard to buy something is stupid. Making it even a bit difficult to buy something expensive is fatal.
Much as I love the Web and spend far too many hours on it, there’s plenty to do a computer offline. And, every day, I find myself in places where there’s neither WiFi nor cellular.
So, I wouldn’t take a plunge on a Web-only tablet, unless it was really, really, really affordable.
And, it has a really, really, really stupid name.