That's a big stinking fish if you don't even factor in the TC controversy. Anyone who bought a Joojoo is kicking themselves right now.
a) Ordered a JooJoo?
b) Paid for a JooJoo?
c) Received a JooJoo?
But somewhere there is a team that can build a touch screen tablet. Whether they can build a compelling offering that competes with the rest with their plans for an Android tablet, remains to be seen.
I do agree though, it seems like they are leaving, according to them, not unsubstantial number of customers in the lurch. Let's see whether they continue to provide decent support to existing Joojoo customers.
Although, having said that, no noise from customers for lack of support, could be there are no customers to make noise. :-)
Remember that they had an ODM partner in Pegatron. Also with regards to the software, it's not like they garner positive reviews.
Pegatron did a lot of IP work as they were sold on the TC involvement and the deals we had in the pipeline. They had very good engineering guys that worked with a guy we had in the USA.
The industrial design was done by a firm in Singapore
Software design and components were done by a variety of people. FG bought in contractors who did some drivers, and they had 2 FG guys who did the browser and UI
It was all thrown together very quickly and the team was only really scaled up in the months leading up to FG leaving us (TC). Lots of mistakes were made on the software side, but that is a whole other story.
(Note: I worked on the project while at TC)
TC might as well partner up with any Taiwanese ODM. The Taiwanese ODMs are strong in engineering and manufacturing.