The End Of The CrunchPad

Re:The End Of The CrunchPad by mattmaroon on Monday November 30, 2009 @12:49PM (#968274)

I don't understand why this kills the CrunchPad. If Foxconn pulled that shit with Apple over the iPhone, Jobs wouldn't throw up his hands and say "well, I guess we're not doing a phone."

Just take the prototype to Foxconn or one of the other firms that would be happy to do what Fusion Garage won't.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The End Of The CrunchPad by justrudd on Monday November 30, 2009 @01:09PM (#968319)

I think the key difference is that Apple (probably) built a working prototype themselves before showing it to Foxconn. This way IP rights were completely owned by Apple. Foxconn may have helped tweak it, but the rights still belonged to Apple.

It sounds like both TechCrunch and Fusion Garage have rights to different parts of the IP. So TechCrunch can't go to Foxconn (and neither can Fusion Garage) w/o violating the IP rights that the other party has.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The End Of The CrunchPad by liuliu on Monday November 30, 2009 @01:14PM (#968331)

They (TC and FG) jointly own the IP, and that will be an obstacle for outsourcing to other vendors to do the same product.

[ Parent | on HN ]