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Monday Nov 30, 2009

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So I'm reading about the Crunchpad.

It would have been sweet. A $300 wireless notepad, the thickness of a magazine, that you can use for hours to sit and surf the web with.

And it turns out the company in Asia that they hired to mass-produce this decided at the 11th hour "sorry, but to share the revenue with you would cost too much according to our shareholders. Thank you for designing the product and arranging sweet deals with Intel and various multimillion dollar first world electronics retailers. But we're going to go it alone, perhaps keeping you on in an advisory capacity for a small amount of money."

So the product is dead. For the record, that would be like the company who actually builds the iPhone saying "hey, chuck you Farley, we'll sell this one ourselves, kay Bucky?"

Turns out neither the US developer or the Asian partner owns the technology outright - so it's going to do nothing but enrich lawyers, and the US people are just not interested in having their work they prototyped, developed, and came up with ripped off by these people.

So, uh, where the hell are ya gonna make it. Michigan?

The chickens have come home to roost. The managers used to say no problems, we'll make everything over there, so long as we get the big bucks to think of some hip new thing to build. Well now they know they're in the driver seat - you have no other choice but to work with them.

And with that zugzwang comes them either ripping you off and selling your stuff behind your back, or in this case, simply taking your product. Think they'll care you'll sue them in US court? Won't mean a thing in Asia.

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