Guess How Many JooJoos Have Been Sold
The JooJoo tablet might be shipping but is anyone buying?
The JooJoo tablet (formerly known as the CrunchPad) started shipping last Friday and orders were expected to deliver on Monday. So how many people are this week playing with their shiny new tablet from Fusion Garage? Well, not many, it turns out.
The JooJoo made a big splash when it was revealed last year and seeing as how it hit preorder status back in early December, assuming FG had a decent amount of preorders is not exactly an off-the-wall theory. However, it looks like business is slow for Fusion Garage; court documents reveal that the company only received 90 preorders and 15 of those have since been returned.
Gizmodo cites court documents from the ongoing suit between TechCrunch and Fusion Garage that state just 90 of the $500 tablets have been ordered and 15 have been either canceled or returned. To put that in clearer terms, that's $45,000 if they manage to sell all 90. As Giz points out, that's not exactly a huge amount of money when you've got lawsuits, legal bills and the desire to mass produce.
While it's easy to blame the announcement of the iPad and a host of other tablets for the lack of excitement, it's hard to ignore the controversy surrounding this device. What started out as the $200 brainchild of TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has evolved into a $500 tablet from a company that Arrington is calling disreputable.

No it proves that FG f'd up by jacking the price like they did. Hell I would by an iPad over this thing, and I hate apple.
We want the caveman pic!
That only Apple can sell anything to it's fanatical fan base?
No it proves that FG f'd up by jacking the price like they did. Hell I would by an iPad over this thing, and I hate apple.
I guess I was wrong.
See my profile picture and your wish will be granted.
I went to your profile for this! My needs have been sated!
@JooJoo: poor guy.
Over 90% of people that own an iPhone or iPod don't own a Mac and will never own a Mac (me included, strictly a PC guy). So are you telling me that the countless millions of iPhones and Ipods sold were all bought by Apple fanatics? Are they buying 10 iPhones and 50 iPods each just to support Apple?
At $300, i figured a netbook would do what i wanted, with a keyboard.
At $500 and after screwing over the community that designed the hardware and software, there is no way I will buy it.
The apps are what make this thing worthwhile. You Tom's tech heads are missing the bigger picture.
(I think )This thing is gonna be huge and everyone else is going to try and copy it. Other smart phones are already scrambling to make app stores.
Tom's reviews the product, not the idea...