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Special Report: First Tapwave User Group Meeting
Featuring exclusive photos of Tony Hawk's nose!
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by Oliver Steinmeier, Guest Contributor - 3/9/2004 - 10:53am EST
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- Introduction
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| PalmSource - epicenter of the PalmOS world |
On Monday night, PalmSource Headquarters in Sunnyvale, California was the location of the first Tapwave User Group meeting. Organizer Kevin Crossman (aka kevdo) had managed to arrange the presence of some prominent guests, and the event turned into an interesting exchange of information and ideas.
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| Is that Tony Hawk's nose in this photo of Byron Connell? Calls to Tapwave HQ went unanswered. |
The pre-announced guests were Byron Connell, one of the founders of Tapwave and current Senior Vice President of Marketing as well as Developer Evangelist Michael Bergen. They brought along a third Tapwave employee (Joyce, probably familiar to most members of the development program) as well as Scott Summit of San Francisco design firm Summit ID. Scott is one of the people we have to thank for the beautiful, sleek Zodiac design as well as other gadgets (ThinkOutside keyboard, Palm V). Also in attendance were two representatives of New Mexico-based Extreme AI, Inc. Many Zodiac fans are familiar with their first game, Firefly, and are eagerly awaiting the upcoming title Orbz.
Show and Tell
At the beginning of the meeting, participants had the opportunity to show off their latest Zodiac-related gear. For the benefit of those who didn't yet have a Zodiac, Kevin Crossman gave a quick demo of his favorite applications and games. My Brando case, reviewed here last week, attracted a lot of interest since most people hadn't had a chance to see it in person.
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| The neoprene case that almost was |
Speaking of cases, I noticed that Joyce was carrying her Zodiac wrapped in a tightly-fitted neoprene case. It didn't have any branding on it, and at first I thought it might be a prototype of an upcoming Tapwave or 3rd party add-on product. Alas, Byron told us that it was one of the original contenders for the in-the-box case. And as you know, we ended up with that overall not very popular screen flap... and Joyce got the prototype. To be fair, while the neoprene case looked good and added very little to the size of the device, it also didn't provide a lot of protection for the device itself.
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