R.I.P. i-mate, we barely knew ye

Oh, global economic crisis, when will you stop claiming our favorite companies? Oh, wait, it's just i-mate folding this time? So, the company that already laid off its US staff is totally going away? We can live with that. It seems i-mate's remaining employees in Dubai Internet City were told yesterday that they had to take an unpaid two-month leave. That, apparently, was a typo, as the people were actually supposed to take an indefinite unpaid leave. Oops. The company has already been delisted from stock markets around the world, and this abrupt closing has left a number of retailers hanging as orders for the 810F are apparently still pending. Now they, just like our hopes of a Dirty Dancing sequel, will never be fulfilled.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 17th 2009 9:07AM]

too soon, too soon....

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 17th 2009 9:38AM]

The Swayze reference was just not in good taste. Come on.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 17th 2009 9:42AM]

Dost thou wit that "ye" is plural?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 17th 2009 10:21AM]

There was a sequel to Dirty Dancing. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights was made in 2004 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338096/, so at least that dream came true.

[jhuster Posted Sep 17th 2009 10:21AM]

That is just WRONG.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 17th 2009 12:02PM]

I saw this coming when they canceled most of the "Ultimate" line

[CeluGeek Posted Sep 17th 2009 1:03PM]

That was uncool. Many of us can't care less about i-Mate's demise, yet we are not that insensitive when it comes to Patrick Swayze.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 5:35PM]

Well I for one was waiting for some I-mate android hardware, and dancing on Swayze's grave is pretty damn mean.