As many of you who follow my blog may already know, I have been following the ever ripining tablet market, with a particular eye on the Crunch Pad. Both Tech Crunch and Fusion Garage, the company that is doing the OS for the crunch pad, have been mute as to the progress of this device.
During a recent scan of the web for the latest Tablet Computing news I ran across this posting from Dan Frommer at the Business Insider blog (Kudos to them for the embed option)
I can’t help wondering what is going through the mind of Michael Arrington, the brain behind the Crunch Pad. While he and the folks at Fusion Garage have been stone silent, ignoring any media requests for more information, we now hear that the Best Buy CMO has given it the nod.
Not everyone seems to think that there is a need for this type of technology, though. Naysayers say that Net Books and web enabled phones like the IPhone are all that is needed, and these new devices will be nothing more than expensive toys for the gadget croud.
The naysayers couldn’t be more wrong about the value of this type of product. Tablets have a huge potential change the way certain business sectors approach using technology to improve internal processes, and to differentiate themselves from competitors.
Cloud Computing is on the rise, even with the concerns of data security, and devices like the Crunch Pad offer the innovative companies a way to really leverage this new technology to their advantage.
If there were truly no market for tablets, then Apple and Microsoft wouldn’t both be diligently working on their own (more expensive) version of the crunch pad.
Let’s face it. We heard the same thing about the net book when it came out.
If I had Crunch Pad and an HTC Hero, I could run my small business for next to nothing by using cloud apps in place of a traditional infrastructure. But that will be a blog for another day…
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