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Saturday 25 July 2009

Michael Arrington im Interview Michael Arrington, TechCrunch blogger and CrunchPad-inventor, in an interview a little over the CrunchPad chatted and gave a little insight to CrunchPad therefore, OS Google Chrome and Apple Tablet.

Reveals much about Michael Arrington CrunchPad in this interview does not, but it can not, hand out a little sideswipe at Google and Apple. He notes that based operating system, Google announced Chrome OS actually on the idea of CrunchPad. Apple Arrington also expresses itself in which he makes clear that the Apple tablet has long announced and it's never come on the market. And he fears that Apple is not the CrunchPad on the plan and the CrunchPad (300, - U.S. dollars) as a possible killer competitor to the Apple Tablet (800, - U.S. dollars) could make life difficult.

Here you can watch the interview you. Interestingly, it is from minute 45:50. At the end of the contribution we have original wording of the interesting place for us and again in writing.

Here the promised text of an interesting place, as it went around the CrunchPad:

Charlie Rose: OK. Tell me what Crunchpad is.
Michael Arrington: About a year ago - and I really like where the industry is going with this - about a year ago, I realized I just want a big iPhone. I want a computer that I can sit on the couch and surf the Web without having a weird keyboard stuck to it that does not really work when you're not sitting at a desk. And so we started this project on TechCrunch just talking about it, saying we want to build this and we want help from the community, and great things happened over the course of a year. We've hired a team. We've had lots of people, partners come on board and contribute their time, their resources, suggest partnerships.
Charlie Rose: Did you go get venture money?
Michael Arrington: Well, you know, I'm not going to question that answer.
Charlie Rose: Why not?
Michael Arrington: Because I have not - I do not want to answer the question.
(LAUGHTER)
Charlie Rose: We have our ways, sir.
Michael Arrington: But I'll say this. I think that Apple - so there's rumors - forgetting the Crunchpad and the fact that I did not want to build - Apple is talking about coming out with a tablet computer, which is going to be a large-screen iPod, or iPhone or iPod Touch. I think that's a good thing. I think they'll sell a lot of them. Google's new operating system, Chrome OS is a Linux-based operating system with a browser on top, and the idea is you never see the operating system You never go to the desktop on the computer. It goes right to the browser, which is what we've been talking about for a year. They've been working on it for a long time. I'm not suggesting we had the idea first. I have no idea. But the point is, it's coming to market as a free operating system I think that's really good, and we're going to see netbooks without keyboards. We're going to see computers with other input mechanisms besides keyboards, or alternative input mechanisms that I think are going to - really exciting stuff.