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The VCs must be a very optimistic bunch. Fusion Garage is 2 product cycle behind Ipad, one product cycle behind the current Android tablet entrant.

I don't see the Android tablets competing with the Ipad yet (the UX experience just isn't there). However, once Android tablets pricing drops to $350 in another 2 product cycles, sales will take off as people buy Android tablet in lieu of netbooks.

As long as people are not looking at Android tablet as netbook replacement, Android tablet would continue to be a niche product.

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The most interesting quote from the article was probably "Chandra said transportation companies, hospitals and advertising agencies were interested in a customized version of the Joojoo." If that is in fact true and they can meet that demand, then I imagine there is a lucrative niche for them in low volume, highly customized tablets. You don't have to have mass market appeal and mass market sales to be successful company.

He's talking about a market, and possible luke warm interest in people's he's spoken too. It's basically marketing.

It's going to be easier to get a iPad programmer than a Joojoo programmer so it's unlikely many places will get behind a company that EOL'd their product in less than a year's time.

It's going to be easier to get a iPad programmer than a Joojoo programmer

Think hardware rather than software. If you're some obscure industry and need a small number of tablets that fulfill some obscure hardware requirements do you really think Apple is going to help you? Their best bet at this point is probably to take a good look at companies like Psion. Leave the mass market behind I focus on niche hardware for niche markets. There is still a very good chance that they will fail, but it is probably the only realistic chance they have.

The Joojoo is basically a Linux stack with Webkit on top of it. Either way, getting programmers would not be difficult.

VC's have nothing to do with optimism, and everything to do with who you are. If you're an "insider", chances are you'll get funded even if your product is absolute crap. If you're an unknown entity, good luck getting funded even if you have a killer product.

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