Just 90 JooJoo pre-orders taken?
Most people have heard of the JooJoo, the tablet computer originally called the CrunchPad. But it doesn’t appear that many have actually bought one, with leaked legal papers claiming just 90 JooJoos have been pre-ordered.
There’s a justifiable feeling that tablet devices are the next big thing in computing/mobile, combining the two in an orgy of usability and features. However, while Apple has experienced a monumentally successful presale, its early competition doesn’t seem to have done quite as well.
According to legal documents from the JooJoo/TechCrunch lawsuit leaked by Gizmodo, just 90 JooJoos had been sold by February 11, 2010. That’s two months after Fusion Garage began the presale. If that isn’t bad enough, 15 of the 90 pre-orders had been revoked, probably as a result of potential buyers switching allegiance to the iPad once Steve Jobs unveiled it on Jan 27.
The first JooJoos should be reaching customers this week, so I guess at least 90 people will have something to report on how the final product turned out.
This is what you get for doing the following: giving your product an awful name, pricing it the same as an equivalent product from Apple, launching at the same time as Apple, and doing the dirty on a commercial partner in order to get the product to market in the first place.
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March 30th, 2010
My personal opinion, which is quite weighty (so says the scale), is the fourth point is the trump, that people aren’t taking kindly to the total shaft of TC. Other points valid, too.
April 3rd, 2010
It doesn’t have apps, it has only 4GB capacity, no home button, no support beyond an email address on their web site and the promise that they will “get back to you as soon as possible”, the likelihood they will be broke very quickly since they could sell only 75 units (90-15=75) for their pre-orders, plus and the bad politics of dumping TC and losing all the goodwill brought about by Arrington intriguing everyone with the little guy making a web device for ‘us’ story.
I am amazed that 75 people were nuts enough to part with money for such a risky and half baked venture. Maybe those 75 might be worth something eventually because they will be very rare since they will find it difficult to sell another 75