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The TextBlade keyboard is superb, but you'll have to be patient
Indeed. Unfortunately from what little i have seen of MK on forums he does not appear to be the sort of person who is likely to be sufficiently empathic to be swayed by this sort of story to action, even if he could.alexonline said:
...and speaking of lack of empathy, how on earth does someone reply to a post like that inserting your two cents’ worth without even expressing sympathy/horror at what he was put through?
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The TextBlade keyboard is superb, but you'll have to be patient
I particularly like the “Preorder Now for Early Delivery”. I shudder to think what he considers Late Delivery to be.TextBladeDenied said:New visitors to the WT web site are told 'what to expect' for orders placed today. Ship window: Fall. Ship time, a mere 4-7 days.
A calendar on the WT web site indicates that....oops...if only you had ordered sooner, you would have received your Textblade already. Those of us who ordered long ago are apparently already received our Textblades for April and May (dang! if only we checked our mail more often!), June Textblades are rolling in, and July - September Textblades are coming soon!
Then there's some sort of blue-green infographic bar graph thing going on for Oct, Nov, Dec. Maybe the blues are Dvorak Textblades, and the greens are Qwerty Textblades? Anyone care to guess? Who knows?
The point is, this graphic, which has been on the WT web site for years, estimates your product will arrive in Nov 2019 if you order now. This is a blatant lie. Mark Knighton constructed this graphic to deceive new customers into giving him money. He is a liar and a scam artist. You will not receive your Textblade in June, July, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, or Dec of 2019, or 2020, or 2021, or 2022.
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The TextBlade keyboard is superb, but you'll have to be patient
Rolanbek said:
I see what's gone wrong here. The problem is that back when development began on the textblade otters were really quite easy to come by, what with the Voyageurs and all bringing them down from the North. Nowadays however the fur trade has hit hard times, and I really think WT need to consider moving to a more modern workforce. Yes, in the short-term it may introduce further delays, but MK has already shown himself with the firmware rewrite to be prepared to absorb short-term delay for long-term gain, and I think this is a perfect example of why sometimes we all need to bite the bullet and make those tough decisions, regardless of how many angry potential customers we may have.A more reliable source, that bloke from the pub, said that one of the delays was getting otters trained which their little paws to push the Flex PCB from front to back during assembly. This was due, he says, to a global shortage of otters. He reckons you will have to clean every textblade's magnetic contacts right out of the box due to the combination of fish oil and otter fur from the assembly process.
We all know that otters never wash their hands properly...
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The TextBlade keyboard is superb, but you'll have to be patient
Agree completely. I've not read the whole of the post on the other side but just skimmed it, partly because it was written by someone I've decided I don't wish to hear any more from (and I must say, it's really quite liberating: I've never put anyone on ignore before, and it's quite fun seeing "gaps" in the post numbers and imagining what tripe I'm not having to waste my time with!).weirdosmurf said:A 2yr old necro-post was just revived on Waytools forum with a very long and impassioned post at the end (https://forum.waytools.com/t/are-the-delays-understandable/4909/19?u=weirdosmurf) trying to rationalise why the delivery delays for the TextBlade might be “understandable”. Whilst it might be theoretically possible to “understand” why Waytools have not been up to the task of delivering a product, that does not conflate to being in any way “acceptable”...
The post mentions customer service and support post-release and the difficulties Waytools might face; from what I’ve seen, they’re in a world of hurt on that score as they can’t even get an update out on time...! What on earth makes anyone believe they are remotely capable of doing the infinitely more complex and difficult task of actual customer support...?
i suspect we are in for a long, long wait before anyone sees an actual purchased TextBlade (if ever...). Who knows, it may happen one day, but perhaps another company with expertise in actually realising products might need to buy up the company and take over the product release... Waytools have shown no evidence that they have any ability to actually achieve general release... (and when they say they’re going to do something, they invariably don’t follow through, so anything they say regarding... pretty much anything... should be taken with a grain of salt - basically; “believe it when you see it... until then, it’s just vapour and unfulfilled promises...”)
*Mark, don’t you dare cancel my order; that decision rests with me, not you - your responsibility is to deliver me two TextBlades... if you’re annoyed at my post or tone, channel that rage in to actually releasing the product... or failing that; a progress update (preferably in plain, not-jargon-peppered English...)
I can't pretend to understand the complexities of programming, or launching a product, as I've never done it. Well, there was that one time in my adolescence when I produced a case statement in Unix shell that was hundreds of lines long, but that doesn't really count... But I can see that lots of other companies manage it more efficiently, and with more realistic ability to estimate progress. I certainly do know a lot about producing work to time, particularly written work. and to see someone fail that as badly as WK has is really quite depressing. This leads me to the inescapable conclusion, as I think we all agree, that the delay and problem here lies not so much with the product per se as the person leading the project. Like you, I suspect the only way we'll ever see a GR is if another company buys the IP. it'd be kinda cool to be proven wrong, but I'm not holding my breath.
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The TextBlade keyboard is superb, but you'll have to be patient
Oh by the way, it would appear that someone’s trying to communicate with me who I’ve put on ignore. So unless they’re quoted (as above) I can’t read it. Just thought I should mention this as I know how frustrating it can be to expend a lot of time on something you know someone’s never going to see.TextBladeDenied said:dabigkahuna said:
Let's see, a poster didn't know if the free gift had been determined. Since I knew the top level of it had been, I let him know. And when the extra mile to tell him that we didn't know at what points the gift would be reduced or what the lower levels would be.TextBladeDenied said:
Hang in there folks. The mysterious 'free gift' is really quite good and if you just wait a little while longer, you will get to find out if you qualify for it or not! We're not sure if you will receive it if you ordered as far back as March 2015, but soon you will find out!dabigkahuna said:
I don't know if the top gift will include those who ordered then or not. I hope it does as it is really quite good.
Disgusting. Gaslighting 101.
Ban the Kahuna shill or put him on ignore. He is a key player in the ponzi scheme.
Quack. Quack.
If you want to do some good in the world Kahuna, disclose what the 'top free gift' is. More transparency is a good thing, so paying customers have more information and can make informed decisions. There is no reason to keep secrets from people any longer, after 4.5 years of lies and delays. Stop enabling Mark Knighton's sociopathic behavior. Be a force for good, not evil.
