“Based on the preliminary device I got to play with for a few moments this morning… The software needs major work, and now Fusion Garage, the company that’s making it, has a few months to make improvements,” Frommer reports. “It took extra taps on the touchscreen to do most of the things I wanted to do. Much of the user interface is not very intuitive. There’s lots of room for polishing. And I even crashed it once.”
Frommer reports, “But the biggest problem I have with the device as a potential buyer: Until a bunch of stuff happens, it’s just an expensive gadget that only does one thing — Web browsing at wi-fi hotspots.”
“And if I’m going to have the opportunity next year to buy a tablet from Apple — which already has a lot of my media and apps in its platforms via my iPods, iPhone, and Macs, that’s going to be the obvious choice for me,” Frommer writes. “Apple’s tablet will likely look and feel better, and be lighter and sleeker. And, no offense to whoever is designing the JooJoo’s user interface and operating system, but my gut tells me that Apple (and Microsoft, etc.) are going to do a much better job at designing those, too.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft? They’ll do better than this JooJoo thing if they copy Apple, as usual. Otherwise, Microsoft Bob.™
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