Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11

Re:Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11 by codexon on Monday December 07, 2009 @04:12PM (#982165)

Actually it does mean you can't build some crap and sell it when your product is high tech.

In this case Arrington only had pie-in-the-sky hand waving ideas about a $200 touchscreen computer that could do everything. He clearly wasn't interested in putting actual effort and resources into the project until someone else started working on it. The project would have died if Fusion Garage didn't start working on it.

And in this situation, a "prod dev guy" actually did build it. And I am willing to bet you that he can sell at least one.

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Re:Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11 by zaidf on Monday December 07, 2009 @06:26PM (#982508)

  And I am willing to bet you that he can sell at least one

Okay, even if he can sell one, so what? That "one" is pretty arbitrary.

I can bet you if Arrington put up a preorder page of a product called SUPER-CRAP, he could sell more than one. Again, so what?

The end goal is not to sell one. It's to build a successful business. And that requires significant(even if unequal) contribution from both prod dev and marketing.

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Re:Crunchpad renamed "JooJoo" will cost $499 on sale Dec. 11 by codexon on Monday December 07, 2009 @06:44PM (#982549)

I can bet you if Arrington put up a preorder page of a product called SUPER-CRAP, he could sell more than one. Again, so what?

People like to exaggerate that a good marketer can poop in a box and sell it, but at some point it becomes scamming. And I guarantee you that the likelihood of getting sued and losing even more money goes up astronomically.

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