CrunchPad Inc. Formed With 14 Employees In Singapore

Re:CrunchPad Inc. Formed With 14 Employees In Singapore by andrewljohnson on Friday July 03, 2009 @12:38PM (#686277)

I doubt TechCrunch has the expertise to make this thing as good as say, the Kindle. I know people who work at Amazon, and that company has really good engineers. I can't imagine TechCrunch does.

Arrington is just a Jeff Bezos wannabe, but he's missing the point. He thinks hardware+media=money. But it needs to be good hardware!

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Re:CrunchPad Inc. Formed With 14 Employees In Singapore by dabeeeenster on Friday July 03, 2009 @12:41PM (#686284)

The Kindle is vastly more complex than the Crunchpad. EInk, DRM store, mobile network hardware, all sorts.

The crunchpad is basically a laptop without a keyboard, a touch screen and some custom Linux software. It's really not that complex. Most of it is just assembling components and writing some relatively straightforward software, unless I'm missing something?

Say what you like about him, but Arrington is doggedly going after this thing...

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Re:CrunchPad Inc. Formed With 14 Employees In Singapore by boundlessdreamz on Friday July 03, 2009 @12:42PM (#686288)

The hardware design is being outsourced to a company specializing in it. IMHO it has a better chance of being better designed than kindle. By the way, Amazon has good software engineers. I don't know if they even have hardware engineers on their payroll. So arrington and amazon are kind of on equal footing on talent [except for the money that can be pumped into development].

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