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Have to give Andrew credit - he's not using kitty gloves on Chandra, asking him the same questions multiple times to nail down responses.

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Holy cow, no kidding.

"Can you show us a YouTube video on this right now?"

"No, I'm not connected to the internet right now. [pause] Are we running out of time?"

"No, we've got as much time as you need to show this stuff. So, you're going to connect to WiFi right now?"

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...

Arrington said CrunchPad was Atom-based; if so they could use the stock Linux/x86 Flash Player.

I wasn't aware that Nokia is paying for Flash Player; that would certainly add a twist to the "Open Screen Project" if true. (More like open wallet?)

The lame excuse leads to the obvious conclusion that he could not give a demo of YouTube streaming video, which is very curious

Except he did, towards the end of the video. Apparently, he was in an office without wifi, and needed to turn on his verizon myfi to get it working.

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 always does that, he has a really good BS detector and most people tend to give in after you ask them the same question 3 times

Reminded me of the ultimate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwlsd8RAoqI

(Jeremy Paxman interviewing Michael Howard).

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.

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