We hit the big time! Fake CrunchPads are coming out of China
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Now this is a jolly little happenstance. A Chinese manufacturer is selling what he says is a prototype CrunchPad “internet tablet” made by the inimitable Michael Arlington.
Rest assured it is not and no company in China has any idea how to make a CrunchPad. In fact, no one knows the secret except for Arlington himself and he will go with it to his grave.