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Editorial: At WWDC19, Apple charts the future of private, premium tech - alone
Yes, it’s the overseer. Another Mark to be wary of, alongside Mark Knighton.bestkeptsecret said:
This is one of the most disturbing images I have ever seen.
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The TextBlade keyboard is superb, but you'll have to be patient
No idea who you are referring to, TBD.
Douglas Adams would turn in his grave knowing how many deadlines have whooshed by over at Delaytools.
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The TextBlade keyboard is superb, but you'll have to be patient
OMG! The truth is out! You are a poised member of the noisy oppo PR Logitech company here to spread FUD over whether the TextBlade will ever launch, and if it ever does, whether it will matter anymore.poisednoise said:It seems to me that this thread is getting into the endgame - DBK refuses to post anything of value, everyone else's posts have devolved into taunting him to contribute...
Just before this whole thread self-implodes, I thought I should post my own personal experience:
Ordered in early March 2015. My order confirmation email stated that "Your purchase has secured your priority date." Whatever that meant.
No further communication from Waytools, at any point. I have not changed my email address for 20 years, so it definitely didn't get lost.
After a couple of years, forgot about it so completely that this review didn't even remind me - it was only when I went onto their website to look at their publicity that my order popped up. I've moved twice since my order, so updated my address details etc this week.
Waited for the "update before the end of the month" from Waytools, which, surprise, hasn't arrived. It's meant to be coming later on, but frankly, I don't believe it, and even when it does come the preamble MK has produced suggests it won't be anything more than the usual "amazing things have been happening, great strides are being made, and like a glacier, we have moved forwards 3 feet while simultaneously retreating by 1.5 miles".
Cancelled this morning and received this rather amusing confirmation:
I have no idea why I should care about all those other dates, not least because without a year to pin them down they're completely nonsensical.
The truth is it would have been a fun toy. I don't type enough away from my computer to need it, and since its first announcement other options like the iPad smart keyboard have come along also, which while clearly being merely an evolution rather than a revolution, suit me just fine. If a textblade eventually ever appears in the wild somewhere I can actually go look at it I may go and have a play, but honestly, it's probably not worth it for me.
Maybe the (now) June update will deliver something useful, but... well, it’s not looking good for GR this decade, sadly.
If at all.
Skipping June 1 2019 at the top, the first five dates are 2015, with the fifth stretching into 2016.
The sixth date is 2016.
The last two are 2019.
In between all of that is a very large credibility gap.
Reminds me of the world according to gap, or rather garp, with the big scene being where his USB dongle got bitten off.
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The TextBlade keyboard is superb, but you'll have to be patient
Well, with DBK so busy with his truth telling, and MK taking all that time to read all the truth emanating from DBK’s direction, MK hasn’t had the time to do the update yet.arkorott said:@WayTools_Support ;
Guys, what's up with the May Technical Update?
Evening of May 31st.
What is going on? Why is it so difficult and hard to write an update? Maybe too much ground to cover as we have not had one for too long?
A lot of the TB questions on this thread were diverted to this update.
If this would be the potential first missed update promise it would not be significant, but they have been hard to come by for more than a year or so.
Because it is important to always be truthfully right about every single thing and every interaction you have on the Internet, and because this means the truth is never, ever stretched, and things are never, ever rationalised to the nth degree, and because people fall over themselves with love and appreciation for our heroes, we get to the 31st of May.
It may well be that MK will take until the wee hours of Monday because the weekend is just an extension of the end of the month, and MK works very hard and is secretly Waytools_Support (although shhhhh that’s a secret) and writing words at 3am, the timeframe truth-teller DBK has educated us about, is a time when sleepy eyes mean words (and truth) are tough to come by.
So so there might be a miracle and that “yes” we will get an update today, but this might be the same caliber and quality of “yes” that DBK publicly exposed the truth about, which is that yes might actually mean yes, or maybe, or no.
You see, just like the camera can no longer be trusted to tell the truth (whereas once the camera did not lie), the Ministry of Truth (of which DBK is Department Head) says that yes can mean no and no can mean yes, which is all in a effort to provide clarity - and truthfulness.
So yes, there is an update due today, but truth be told, it might not actually arrive today, and truthiness be told, it might be all hat and no cattle in its nutritional, value and information content.
And that, friend Arkorott, is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but DBK-style un-unctuous truth.
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The TextBlade keyboard is superb, but you'll have to be patient
Thanks for your interest in getting your own TextBlade! It's an exciting, big step forward in typing technology for the tablet era, and we hope you're delighted with how much it improves your experience.+++Mark has been hoping the same thing for his customers for 4+ years, we're losing hope that you're serious.+++If you'd like to pre-order, here's some useful info for you. It covers common questions customers may have.+++Life on Textblade started as an order. I ordered, I never pre-ordered.+++PromoBefore we start General Release shipments, all Pre-Order customers get a very sweet deal.MultiMap free of charge. (Save $19 per TextBlade)FutureProof Guarantee. (Save up to $99)Surprise Gift. A special Thank You for early adopters.Enjoy TextBlade months ahead of the crowd!+++Surprise gift? After 4 years? I hope it hasn't passed its expiry date. Enjoy Textblades ahead of the crowd? If you're a tregger you've enjoyed Textblades years ahead of the crowd. What a disgrace!
Future proof guarantee? Hahahaha.... What about a Past Proof guarantee that guarantees against 4+ years of wasted time.+++These exclusive benefits are to thank our early customers who help promote our mission. Order volume increases our power with partner suppliers, and benefits all of our customers. The more orders in our queue, the more speed and efficiency we achieve in bringing TextBlade to the masses. You can help accelerate release by joining in. Read more about our Early Adopter Guarantee here.+++"The more orders in our queue" boosts Mark's wallet. It does not speed up GR, 4+ years of order volume has proved that, and it hasn't done a damn thing to "help accelerate release".+++Production StatusWe've produced a large quantity of TextBlades, and have released a small sampling of several hundred units for customer shipments and quality verification.Before we release mass quantities, we're verifying performance in the field with an initial group of our customers.We'll be busy with that over the next few months as we get high volume inventory ready for release to all customers. If you're interested in some of the technical details of our work, you can read about them in a recent Blog post here: Using TextBlade.+++We've produced a large quantity of TextBlades that have needed fixing. We've released a couple hundreds of them and the rest are being held hostage at WT HQ.We'll be busy "over the next few months as we get high volume inventory ready for release to all customers". This has been a lie for 4+ years, as with the High Volume inventory. If you have high volume inventory planned, surely you can ship out thousands of GR ready units at once, not hold people back by the month or year they've ordered.+++Product BackgroundWe invested millions of dollars over several years to develop TextBlade, and then announced in 2015 to extraordinary interest.Pre-orders began coming in from over 70 countries.In Spring of 2016 we began shipping TextBlades in limited quantities to customers.Test Release Group (TREG) users started posting their reviews.They've been overwhelmingly enthusiastic, and pre-orders increased in response. During the past 12 months, we've expanded both the number and diversity of TREG users, and made many refinements to the hardware and software that define why TextBlade is a much better way to type.+++We began shipping TextBlades in limited quantity to beta testers only.During the past 12 months, we've expanded the numbers and diversity of TREG users... yeah sure, pull the other one.+++These advances have been driven by the extensive daily usage and amazingly valuable input from our users.Their feedback has been excellent.Many have switched to TextBlade as their primary keyboard because of its significant advantages over legacy boards.Over the next few months, we're expanding TREG shipments and customer validation, while we prepare everything needed for General Release to all our customers.+++Is that the same General Release you've failed at over the last four plus years? Expanding Treg shipments - haven't I heard that promise before? TREG shipments seem to be expanded at the rate of a handful per year. Ha.+++PhilosophyBuilding new technology is thrilling and rewarding, but it's often a surprising journey.We didn't plan to hold back General Release for an extensive validation phase.Nor did we expect that we'd replace parts we worked so hard to build and stock.But we listened to what our users needed, and we chose to do those things. We made those choices, and we paid what it cost to make them, because of our core values and beliefs.+++We didn't plan to hold back General Release - we're just bad at forecasting, like 4+ years bad.We made those choices... no, they were forced on you thanks to your bad engineering, bad manufacturing etc.
We paid what it cost to make them... we have millions invested... spending all this money that isn't ours because we haven't shipped yet is thrilling and rewarding... etc etc blah blah.
+++In an era where intensive social media campaigns move mediocre merchandise, does the product itself still even matter?Yes. More than ever.When a product actually is much better, people love it. They tell others, and you have a great, sustainable growth business, that makes life better.+++Life will be better when a customer can order a TextBlade and have it delivered. Core values and beliefs? Wow... just wow. Sustainable growth business? All you've sustainably grown is credulity and the breadth, depth and quality of your excuses. "Mediocre Merchandise"... hahaha+++When we announced, we were excited with what TextBlade could already do, and eager to just push forward and ship customers as quickly as possible.Manufacturing challenges can sometimes alter your plans. They often delay even the largest companies like Apple (Watch, AirPods, white iPhone, etc). But those delays with new tech were not the surprising thing.There was something else.+++There was something else. Yeah, there sure was. Endless delays. Comparing yourself to Apple? Real artists ship, bro. Cool story Mark, bro.+++When customers got their blades and started typing, something magical happened.They realized TextBlade wasn't just a portable keyboard.It was a better keyboard.Maybe even, the best keyboard.Truth be told, this was our aspiration from the very beginning.But you never really know if you've succeeded, until paying customers volunteer that opinion.And they did.+++Maybe the best keyboard? I haven't tried one yet, have you? Magical? So are unicorns. You never really know if you've succeeded UNTIL YOU HAVE CUSTOMERS, not JUST beta testers. Something magical happened? Yes, that people were willing to put up with 4+ years of delay without getting too pissed off. Except they were getting pissed off - pissed off at shadow bans, pissed off at delays, pissed off at forced refunds, pissed off at being accused of being part of an opposition PR campaign, when we were merely pissed off at the lies, non shipments and increasingly ridiculous excuses.+++Once we saw how strong and deep this feeling ran, we knew we had a new responsibility.We knew that people would start depending on TextBlade as their daily typer.They'd want it to connect to all their devices as a kind of hub for typing.They'd want it to be so reliable they could count on it every day.They'd want it to be smart enough to conform to them, instead of the other way around.+++A new responsibility? Like shipping? I would love to depend on a TextBlade and I'd love for it to be reliable, but yeah... about that. Maybe if you'd shipped me one I could believe you, but you're about as believable as DBK's sincerity before he rips this all to shreds. Mr Sincerity, ol' DBK, and his mate, MT.With great power comes great responsibility - to ship.+++That took more work.A lot more.But we also knew that when they got it, they'd get it.When it was in their hands, the pieces would all come together, make sense, and there'd be that magic moment.They'd know that our mission was, in fact, possible. You really could type with less effort, less stress, and less junk.You really could take it anywhere, on any screen, and even get your desk space back.+++I'd like a TextBlade before I can tell you anything about less effort, less stress and less junk, and more desk space. The only junk so far is this crap I'm reading from WT.+++While we did this work, some thought we were crazy. They thought it was some kind of hoax - an imaginary product that was merely CGI. They thought we'd never ship to anyone.Then, we actually started shipping.And customers began to write about it, and write on it.And write they did.Amazing affirmations that this thing they had so hoped would come true, did.And it was, maybe, even better than they had thought.+++They thought it was some kind of hoax, an imaginary product. Well, where is my TextBlade, MK? It's a hoax until customer shipments start en masse, and without any of this mind numbing BS that you have 4+ years worth of orders to ship first before you can ship mine. Your graph showing the months that are "sold out" is just the most complete BS. Some thought we were crazy? Many still do, Mark. Done your May update yet?+++After many positive user reviews, doubts diminished.Some folks continued to worry that we'd never ship to them.As we kept expanding TREG, and more TextBlade packages arrived, suddenly doubts flipped to joy and delight.Something else came with those packages too: a new appreciation for why it took so much effort.They realized how intimately we all connect with our keyboards, and even more so with this new technology.And how all those subtle details really do matter.+++Yeah yeah yeah, blah blah blah. A couple of hundred TREG users mate, that's it, despite you claiming thousands of orders. Doubts have not diminished, doubts have grown that you'll ever finish. The most subtle detail of all is when you'll ship, not this cult indoctrination crap you engage in.+++Confidence has further increased after months of daily use, and consistent affirmation from so many end users.There are still some folks who worry about moving forward with General Release.That perhaps we'll just gild the lily, and hold it back.But those who already have a TextBlade, know firsthand how this is different.They know it's a meaningful step forward, and must be done with great care so that everyone enjoys what it can do.And on the day that package arrives, the journey is very much worth it.+++After 4+ years, confidence has dropped to all time lows. The day the package arrives had better be before the day you file for bankruptcy.
+++We hope this gives you a glimpse of what it has taken to make TextBlade.You know our history, and the choices we've made.If our values make sense to you, we'd love to have you join in our mission.The folks who've already gotten their TextBlades are pretty happy they did.+++The folks who've already gotten their TextBlades is a giant slap in the face to all that haven't received their TextBlades. The folks who've already gotten their TextBlades are pretty happy, I'm sure, but even they were lied to - they ordered as well, a finished product, they were delivered units that broke etc - your original premise that you were ready to manufacture was a blatant lie that you knew about from the start. When a company starts off with a lie, it doesn't bode well, and so far we've had 4+ years of boding badly. Coding badly too, it seems, given you've run out of memory and have had to fix your firmware - again. And again. And again.
+++Ship WindowAs we get confirmation from TREG customers that remaining details are looking good, we'll begin our General Release.We ship in order of priority date, so we'll be fulfilling all customers who ordered before you, and then we'll ship your order. The earlier your order, the higher your shipping priority.+++The earlier your order, the quicker your money is in our pocket while me make another 4+ years worth of delays, and if you don't like it, have a forced refund. You've been waiting for confirmation that remaining details are looking good since 2016. It's not looking good, mate.
+++Our rough estimate is that current pre-orders will ship in Fall.Once we've started General Release, we'll have a more precise time window for your personal ship date.+++Will this Fall shipment prediction fall by the wayside again? You bet. Precise window? Only if you're measuring one from Home Depot.+++Although we're limited to an estimate at the moment, we're now in a fundamentally strong place.The heaviest lifting was getting that initial wave of TREG customers shipped, and verifying good performance over many months of real world, daily use.That milestone was very hard work, but it has given us confidence that we're nearing finalization for release.It has also proved to us that customers find that TextBlade benefits are real, and compelling.We hope you really like it too.+++The heaviest lifting is done? So glad that firmware refactorings are easy then, I mean, 4+ years plus of firmware, bluetooth, keycap manufacturing... it's all so easy. The heavy lifting is DONE, says Mark. But we're still "limited to an estimate".
+++Money-Back GuaranteeYour pre-order has a 100% money-back guarantee.You can get a refund at any time, online, 24 X 7.Just click 'Change' on your order status page, and it takes less than a minute.Your satisfaction guarantee also extends for 30 days after delivery, so you can try TextBlade for a month with zero risk.+++You can try TextBlade for a month? Wow. I haven't tried one for 3 seconds yet. So much slap in the face to current non-treg customers. So many words, so much BS, and a blog section that has had zero updates since 2017. SAD!
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Ok, bone chewer DBK. Do your worst. Tell me this has all been said before. The whole damn thing is a slap in the face to all customers, including you. Lies upon lies upon lies. Overly optimistic forecasts. Talk of "months" when things have been this way for years. Treggers like you brush it ALL under the space bar because YOU have YOUR unit. The rest of us have these flowery WORDS and ESTIMATES.
Sad sad sad sad sad.
