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Originally Posted by TadW
Congrats, Dennis!
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Thank you.
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So what happened to Tapwave when they got sold?
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They didn't
get sold. They went belly up. Their affairs were handed to an SF firm specializing in winding down distressed companies, which is a way to fold your tents and creep away without actually going Chapter 11.
Essentially, they went back to the well for more venture funding and came up dry. At the end, they were trying to morph from device manufacturer to engineering firm making designs
other people would manufacture, but failed to make the transition. Reams have been written on why Tapwave failed, starting with an inability to get game developers on board, and promotion so heavily oriented toward gaming that it could be hard to discover it was also a superb PDA, but the point is long since moot.
Motorola bought some intellectual property from Tapwave, and some Tapwave engineers went to work for them on an unspecified "We can't tell you what it is, but it will be really cool!" product, but Tapwave is now a fond memory.
I have three of them, so I expect to use a Zodiac for quite some time.
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Dennis