“Err, what? This is the equivalent of Foxconn, who build the iPhone, notifiying Apple a couple of days before launch that they’d be moving ahead and selling the iPhone directly without any involvement from Apple.”
Nice analogy. Except the Apple is an actual computing product design and production company and near as I can tell TechCrunch is a blog. At the end of the day, they produced exactly what they should have: a lot of hype and overexposure, but alas no final product. Perhaps they should have worked with a company that is actually capable of executing on this type of thing or even better left it to those companies to produce and design. This seems like the kind of thing TechCrunch is quite adept at pointing out to others.
