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cubrilovic··on Update On The TechCrunch Tablet: Prototype A
I built the prototype. I was going to afford you a response to your first comment, but you have just been ranting. You can't even recognize the difference between a 13" Macbook Air screen and the 12" WXGA screen we used.

the guy above who talked about not disclosing components as a negotiating strategy with ODM's knows what he is talking about. He is also right in that there are a few people here in the valley who really know how to bend an ODM.

cubrilovic··on Top 10 Best Ever Hackers
yep, hackers in the old sense of the word
cubrilovic··on We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.
editor at tcit - we are running the design + software build etc.
cubrilovic··on We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.
wow you are way off
cubrilovic··on We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.
haha def not
cubrilovic··on We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.
our supply chain guys sourced it - we haven't set yet if we are going LCD or exact specific specs (we need to run power tests). the dual touch pad sitting behind it is coming out of a company that hasn't seen their tech integrated into a major product yet.

im sorry we cant mention company names just yet - we are doing this through proxy (ie. using a supply chain company, design firm and manufacturer). I am hoping I can publish the full tech details at some point in the next 24h and we can go from there

cubrilovic··on We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.
you can finish my sentences with whatever you want for however long you want. the conclusion is that no matter what anybody does there will always be people like you who find it easier to troll
cubrilovic··on The Techcrunch Web Tablet Project
plz let me know if it does - i think at one point there were so many comments going in at the same time that funny stuff was happening with wordpress
cubrilovic··on The Techcrunch Web Tablet Project
great comment and very true - although the Kindle serves a different purpose (ie. selling ebooks from Amazon)
cubrilovic··on We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.
hey I just found this thread! (read the site every day though)
cubrilovic··on We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.
the price point we are at in our spec already is at $150 so we have left $50 or more to add cooler shit
cubrilovic··on We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.
like saying wait for peace in the middle east (both UN initiatives)
cubrilovic··on We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.
great point and something we have looked into. nothing like an Apple v Open Source patent war
cubrilovic··on We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.
yes Gates was onto something. nobody has done it right though
cubrilovic··on We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.
not a profit incentive. we just want cool hardware and want it to be open
cubrilovic··on We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.
there are people within TC and within the companies we are working with who are working on this fulltime
cubrilovic··on We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.
nothing to do with profit - they will retail at cost. it will be cheaper than the Nokia because of what the device doesn't have in it (eg. bluetooth, GPS, being browser only etc.)
cubrilovic··on We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.
we will manage that. the dev community will be live tonight and it has already been split up into sub-projects with leads on each one.