Mike Arrington writes that the CrunchPad project has self-destructed over greed, jealously and miscommunication. Short version: the hardware partner tried to screw him and it is now lawsuit time. This is a real shame, because the low-end tablet had a …
Read Original Story: Arrington ends CrunchPad project – Boing Boing (blog)

Dirty laundry is once again being aired today on TechCrunch in a rambling, he said/she said post by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington about the death of the CrunchPad, a would-be tablet Internet Browser. …
Read Original Story: Arrington's CrunchPad garage project finds new home in DeadPool – StarkSilverCreek.com (blog)

Anytime over the past year-and-a-half or so, whenever someone asked me what I thought about the CrunchPad, my answer was pretty much always the same: you’ll never get your hands on one. Call me a cynic, but I just found it difficult to believe that …
Read Original Story: The CrunchPad is no more – Gear Live

For much of the past year, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has been working with a small group on a pet project called the CrunchPad. It was designed to be a 12 inch tablet style device for surfing the web from a couch. While Arrington always said …
Read Original Story: The CrunchPad tablet is dead, is anybody surprised? – Liliputing

Yep, that’s right. The sleek prototype of a tablet/netbook device is experiencing higher-than-expected production costs and repeated delays, which are rumored to lead to its demise. Earlier, this year, Michael Arrington had said the CrunchPad tablet…
Read Original Story: CrunchPad Tablet Netbook Rumored to Crumble Under High Costs and Repeated Delays – Netbook Boards

Those of you who had the CrunchPad in our 2009 ‘death pool’ have won. Michael Arrington has officially announced the Internet tablet’s death in a heart-breaking blog post which detailed the internal strife that preceded the Crunchpad’s end. …
Read Original Story: The CrunchPad Dies – I4U

The CrunchPad Tablet PC has “self destructed” and is now “in the DeadPool” just weeks before its public launch, according to TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. TechCrunch’s partner in making the CrunchPad, Singapore-based …
Read Original Story: CrunchPad in the 'DeadPool', left with legal hurdles – International Business Times

There is, for the record, no shame in having a product idea not make it market. Especially when the claims made for the product seemed to defy gravity. Stuff happens, as they say. Sadly, it seems like the CrunchPad had trouble from the …
Read Original Story: Arrington's CrunchPad, Dead Before Arrival – PC World

Before Google showed off Chrome OS, essentially the Chrome Browser running on top of an ultra-lite Linux Kernal, TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington tried to will something very similar into existence — a capacitive touchscreen CrunchPad tablet that would …
Read Original Story: Mythical iTablet Competitor CrunchPad Dead Before Arrival – the iPhone Blog (blog)

TechCrunch impresario Michael Arrington buried his dream today. eSarcasm has the exclusive semi-live report from the memorial service for the dearly departed Web tablet. By Dan Tynan The story you’re about to read is not (entirely) true. …
Read Original Story: Live – err, Dead Blogging the CrunchPad Funeral – eSarcasm (satire)