CrunchPad Officially Dead?

[DipDog3]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/30/AR2009113001978.html

Arrington quotes emails from the main CrunchPad partner, Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan, and says flatly that Crunch Gear had been pushed aside. Writes Arrington:

We were being notified that we were no longer involved with the project. Our project. Chandra said that based on pressure from his shareholders he had decided to move forward and sell the device directly through Fusion Garage, without our involvement.

Err, what? This is the equivalent of Foxconn, who build the iPhone, notifiying Apple a couple of days before launch that they’d be moving ahead and selling the iPhone directly without any involvement from Apple.