If there is no injunction prior to theJooJoo.com accepting pre-orders, or even shipping the devices, the success of the device will still be handicapped by the anticipation that the litigation could kill the project and buyers would be left with an overpriced Web-browsing device that was obsolete before it launched.

Fusion Garage has to know that Arrington won't just walk away without a fight. Perhaps today's press conference was a stunt to try and build some buzz and take the battle with TechCrunch into the court of public opinion.

After all of the hype and expectations it seems a shame that it has come to this. Honestly, though, we can already surf the Web on a variety of mobile devices, and there are netbooks with more comprehensive computing capabilities available for half the price of the JooJoo. Do we need a niche device like this?

Lets just skip ahead and call the time of death on JooJoo now.

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