1. Can't imagine a more horrible way to launch a product.
2. In a lawsuit context, why on earth is this guy, as the company's primary witness, allowing himself to be subjected to detailed questioning on the merits of the case in a public venue? Not coming off as very credible either.
I would like to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I don't think I'll ever buy the joojoo product because of this interview. He appears to be dancing around nearly every question, and his body language is shady. I don't trust the company.
Humans have highly attuned bullshit detectors built right in. If your intuition is telling you not to trust someone, you should listen to it, despite the words coming out of their mouth.
If you are about to give an interview and show off your new product to a bunch of people, wouldn't you take time in advance to make sure all is set up and you can give a flawless demo of many different aspects of the toy? Having a WIFI connection should be one of the basics.
Absolutely. The lame excuse leads to the obvious conclusion that he could not give a demo of YouTube streaming video, which is very curious.
It might be an ARM processor. Flash can run on an ARM (works on my Nokia N800), but that is not a free flash player from Adobe. Money is a known issue, so that might be the explanation.
It might indeed be a custom OS rather than linux and they don't have flash (a binary blob) running on their custom OS, but why would they not use linux???
Hmmm, it could be a MIPS derivative (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson) - I don't know what the flash player availability is on MIPS. Interesting thought...
Yes. I did not see the video live, am seeing it now that it is posted. I should not have speculated without seeing the video. Sorry. :-(
He also is doing the interview from a borrowed office, which could easily explain why he was unable to get the wifi running (ended up connecting via mifi, i.e. cellular).
he's spent a lot of time doing interviews and has gotten exceptionally good at it. He knows what questions the viewers want and makes sure to get the answer/rounds back to the question.
will you have an embed link? I want to add the interview to my the life and death of crunchpad page on http://crunchpad.com
And this way it would actually be seen on the page, instead of getting lost in the wall of text. But if not, I'll just link it
You should really get a player with embed functionality, that way you can get people hooked by the 1-2 good interviews they find posted on other sites they visit, and then they'll come to yours for future interviews.
That guy does not seem like a pushover. He's not the kind of guy I would want to get in a fight with. He's really not afraid, he stands up for himself directly. I would bet on him. If he came to me right now and said Max, give me $50k, I'd just hand it over to him.
From the amount of openness Chandra has shown, it seems there is more than a small chance. No contracts in place? No code contributed? That's not stuff you can lie about.
But Arrington cares about his image. This guy just seems to not just give a fuck - he just barges on ahead. Such people are excellent to work with. Someone with that type of confidence keeps you moving forward... fast.
Funny thing - I think Micheal Arrington jumped on the phone with Andrew getting ready for an interview just after interviewing Chandra (JooJoo guy) - and Micheal said something like "hold on, let me call you back" - is Andrew going to be interview Micheal next?
I feel so...connected...that I just wrote that and got my question answered by the guys in the center of the tech scandal. I almost feel...important! They said my name! I am somehow part of this!
More than the lawsuit, I would really worry about the apple tablet competition which is around the corner. That news leak itself is a big sale deterrent for them.
Chandra is clearly an untrustworthy scumbag. He can't speak perfect English and isn't even white. This alone makes Michael Arrington the legitimate creator of the JooPad. Chandra's story is full of holes. I mean, who cares about who actually built the software and the hardware and the tangible aspects of the product? The TechCrunch people went to Singapore for a whole month! What were they doing there if not contributing their extensive expertise in tablet-device ideation? Surely you don't expect us to believe you came up with the idea to include Youtube all by yourself. You can hide behind your IP and legal rights and Bruce Lee for now, but just wait till someone digs up your old blog where I'm sure we'll find the missing legal documents where you hand over your creation to TechCrunch. Like most of the other posters, I don't care that you've answered the key questions surrounding this case and all Arrington can do is raise a bunch of tangential issues to undermine your credibility. Here in Silicon Valley, we value ideas over execution, loud-mouthed promoters over serious technologists, being part of the start-up establishment over being a genuine entrepreneur, and, of course, appearances over substance.
1. Can't imagine a more horrible way to launch a product.
2. In a lawsuit context, why on earth is this guy, as the company's primary witness, allowing himself to be subjected to detailed questioning on the merits of the case in a public venue? Not coming off as very credible either.