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TextBladeDenied said:

And yet, Mark Knighton refuses to ship it. Care to guess why?

Yes

Have you ever run a firmware update on your TextBlade gmadden, or heard of someone running a firmware update?

Yes

Have you heard any reports of any treg tester bricking a Textblade as part of a firmware update procedure?

Yes, as below.

Does interrupting a firmware update brick the keyboard?

In the past, Yes. No TREG reports of this for a very long time. It was not a permanent brick. Maybe more like plasterboard

Can a Textblade be un-bricked with a reset procedure and firmware upgrade re-run?

Depends how it bricked.

Why, in the entire universe of firmware upgradeable devices, is only Waytools unable to ship a product with firmware that can be easily upgraded at a later date?

No. I think the premise here is false. Upgrading the firmware post release has not been the hold up. It is triage and resolution of ‘issues’.

There are countless little electronic gadgets available (with a fraction of the alleged R&D input of the Textblade) which have no problem implementing an intuitive firmware update procedure that works. Why can't Waytools figure that out?

They have. I get the impression you don’t like the chosen answer.

Have an opinion?

Yes

Why is the Textblade firmware update procedure so unreliable that Waytools cannot risk releasing firmware v1 while they finish v2?

Not the upgrade itself, all the stuff around it for many thousands of (potential) customers with (un-triaged) issues.

If there is no serious and good faith logical answer to these questions, then perhaps the real answer is simply that there is no Textblade being offered for sale under any circumstance, and the technical issues alleged (firmware re-write) are a cover story. 

Impressively elaborate if that is the case.

Isn't the much more likely truth that they cannot afford to produce it (and thus lie to everyone by not disclosing that fact), or that they are restrained from selling it due to patent/legal issues (and thus they lie to everyone by not disclosing that fact)?

No

Edit: line breaks on mobile aren’t playing nice. Is there a way to HTML edit on mobile?

Rolanbek said: 

That's good to know. Odd question:Do you take sugar in your coffee? It's just that can make the whole cleaning process a bit of a chore. If the unit can recover from that relatively quickly that would be a bonus. 

In the realm of keyboards, a lever of change is in play right now, and the scene above depicts it. One TextBlade user is in the Land Down Under, and his story is emblematic of what's happening. Glenn M. is an Australian developer, and because of his work, he spends a lot of hours each day, typing. He's also surrounded by a lot of machines - a Mac, an iPad, an iPhone, and one or two more PCs, and they each demand subtle differences in typed characters. At the center of this scene, and at the center of change ... is a TextBlade.
Glenn jumps between all his different devices from one TextBlade. It knows the differences in modifier keys between his Windows and Mac systems, and it makes the changes for him, automatically. His physical labor of typing is dramatically reduced, and has a consistent, satisfying feel no matter which machine he’s typing on.
His TextBlade desktop footprint is no bigger than his hands, and he gets back the workspace that was once wiped out by a 2 foot long board. And when he’s on the road, Glenn can operate any of these machines remotely from his 64 bit mobile workstation - an iPad, SwiftPoint mouse, and TextBlade.

Forget to mention in one of my previous posts, Jump Desktop has been a big win for my mobile station. I’ve gained a lot of freedom from lugging the laptop around because I can access it all remotely while using the same efficient keyboard.