ericpeets

WayTools_Support said:

Ericpeet - maybe have a look at the bullet points in our post, if you like answers more than questions.  Or perhaps your point is to frame knowns as unknowns.

Alexonline - people have already received properly working units.  Since you don’t have an order, and you say it’s vaporware, it’s curious you still spend time on it.

It's so frustrating to get a straight answer. I'm asking because I can't figure out from previous posts, since they're cryptic, full of accusations, conspiracy theories and psycho analysis. And with snide remarks to boot. Let's try this again:

• Were those pallets of textblades shown to William ready to ship? (Just says 320 TBs per pallet, but are these ready to ship? Or do they need to be altered/modified)?
• If so, why aren't you shipping them? (They should at least be shipped to additional TREG candidates, if not GR (if you can produce the pallets at regular pace, no?)
• If not, what's holding up GR? (What are some of the major delay issues, and what are your milestone objectives that  are holding it up?)
• Do you have any updates you'd like to share? (I think you last stated bluetooth issues and working on a code fork, anything else you can update?)

Please don't read INTO what I'm saying when I tell you that I find no pleasure in making critical remarks, nor in wading through your own WT forum to search for answers to the questions. That's why I'm taking the opportunity here to ask them.

Hey Waytools,

This is unbelievable. Your accusations lobbed at Rolanbek is completely lies upon lies. You weren't there at the MacRumors forum, and apparently you haven't read it either. You know how I know? I was there, as was Dabigkahuna. Rolanbek joined a little later. Your accusations are so outlandish, I had to do a double take, go back to the MR forum and review it again.

You said:

He (Rolanbek) jumped over to the macrumors forum, where he could post unchecked.

He stalked, overloaded, impugned the integrity of reporting, and ultimately so spooked the editor, the only option was to end coverage.

And he works with confederate pseudonym id’s too.

Why he does this is unclear.  Why he tries to block others from enjoying the product is unknown.  A proxy for other interests? A hater? Who knows.

That is his M.O. for a ‘denial of coverage’ attack.  He tries to harangue people to muzzle them.
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In macrumors case, he accused an editor of getting paid to write a puff piece for ad dollars.  But macrumors never takes money for advertorials ever.  They farm out all ads to google ads, so the ads are all blind.  

Macrumors didn’t take a dime to report on this new tech, that over time has proved to be indisputably real, and powerful.  That editor told the truth the whole way, and when this guy would not let up with the harassment, the topic was stopped - which was his target. This all occurred before any treg shipments had started.

By the time Rolanbek joined, some old-time MR members were accusing Juli Clover of writing essentially promo piece on your company, and he actually tried to protect Juli from that barrage with:

Comment #114: "This is Juli's house show some respect please - Rolanbek"

If you even read any of the posts at all, you'll see Rolanbeck was taking Dabigkahuna to task about what he knew about your delivery, schedules, etc -- for which DBK was more than happy to oblige in his typical mountainous verbose fashion. Never once did Rolanbek accuse Juli of anything, impugn the integrity of reporting, spook the editor.

You even seem to imply that Rolanbek was the reason MR ended coverage with your company. She stated further into the comments that 1) people saying that her piece was somehow a paid promotion was stressing her out and 2) seeing the discrepancies between what you had told her and those thing never materializing had hurt her reputation as well as MR's credibility. And that's why she and the staff decided to end coverage, and as she told Mr. Mims, MacRumors completely cut ties with you.

You know, all the lies and accusations you lob are easily verifiable to be false, by anyone. Why do you create such lies without doing one iota of homework. What were these based on? You weren't there, you don't know. Yet you hurl all these lies. This has to be one of the dumbest and most irresponsible things you done, and that's saying a lot considering your track record of some horrendous lies, accusations and character assassinations.

Waytools,

Again you fail to answer the relevant questions asked here (as well as back on WT forum), such as:

• Were those pallets of textblades shown to William ready to ship?
• If so, why aren't you shipping them?
• If not, what's holding up GR?
• Do you have any updates you'd like to share?

Can you please answer any of these questions?

WayTools_Support said:

Ericpeets - Good to see.  It’s down to picking nits with style, ergo we must be doing well on substance.
There is a popular discussion site called Quora.  Its founders are actually quite literate people.

To all - 

Don't take this the wrong way, but I find your writing quite cryptic. First of all, what are you referring to with "picking nits with style"? Are you referring to my correcting you on the use of "fora" vs. "forums"? If so, it was a genuine act of courtesy for correction so that you won't look more ridiculous than the way you were presenting yourself (and by extension, your company). Don't read into what I said, just read what I said. Second, what does Quora have to do with the topic at hand? Third, who are you imploring to? The AI commenters? I've got news for you, you're not in WT forums anymore. Your minions are not coming for you, nor can you fudge with this forum software to ban people you don't like or simply close off the thread.

The same folks who flooded the macrumors forum to overload its editor, and frustrate posters with a steady storm of chaff.  That’s the denial of service in action.

Actually, the only one that overloaded that forum is one of your minion: Dabigkahuna. He wrote and wrote and wrote so much walls of glowing text about your product that he was banned from there. In fact, some users there were taking bets that he was an employee of your company. Go ahead and check it out, it's still archived. You're right about one thing, though, he did frustrate many posters there.

<... more of same unfounded accusations and conspiracy theory ...>

Some folks who say they too, want the product ... actually don’t.  They don’t want this advance to grow, and they come here to discourage and delay it.

For some, the mere existence of the product is disquieting, and the ascent of it is a threat.

It's probably beyond your understanding, but I like the concept of your product. That's why I paid for it, my girlfriend and few other colleagues paid for it, waited over 3 years for it before cancelling. I still would like buy it, but only if I don't have to deal with you and your company. It was just too exasperating waiting in the dark and frustrating trying to get some simple answers from you. I never said anything disparaging about the textblade itself, but you have some PR problems on your hands.

Peace.

WayTools_Support said:

We’ll let the reader compare our prior post alongside the one above, to judge whose tone is the bully.

On our forum, we got flame posts from the day we announced.  At that time, their assertion was that TextBlade was just CGI and didn’t actually exist. They don’t say that anymore.
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Some of these folks turned out to work for competitors, and some were just haters who just like to knock anything hopeful and good.
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The thing we built clearly had a lot of power to change things, and there were some folks who feared it enough to try to block it.  But when there’s merit, eventually it gets known.  And it breaks through.  And that has happened here, as we shipped customers in the test release group.

This is, and has been, your MO used to rationalize mistreatment of your customers -- to accuse them of being spies and saboteurs working for a competitor -- then messing with their forum privileges, often leading to cancelling their orders. I know it's been asked of you before, but who is this competitor or competitors exactly you speak of? I wonder who'd plan such elaborate schemes and send out battalions of devious agents. Are they working together, collaborating with each other? Or maybe, as your conspiracy states, just one person with dozens of alter egos? Have they infiltrated your TREG group, or even your staff? According to you, they must have infiltrated Apple Insider, or at least their alter egos. And to do what, exactly? I'm curious how far this conspiracy rabbit hole goes.

Or maybe you're just delusional and neck deep in paranoia. If you're in such fear of these people, how can you make anything, much less anything so <revolutionary | advanced | amazing | [ whatever else is left in the thesaurus here ]>? Any uninitiated outsider reading the few posts you made here will think you're completely cracked. First of all, it should be easy to verify whether the non-TREG posters in this forum are alter egos or not simply by asking the AI forum admin to verify our unique credentials, which I'll do gladly. But I doubt you'll believe it over your conspiracy theory.

To cut through some of the spin about ‘4 years between reviews’ here’s the short strokes -

And here goes another round of semantics game I previously alluded to:

- Over the last 36 months we’ve shipped hundreds to customers, and they’ve used them extensively to prove it out and refine it.

You've sent them out to testers (not really customers).

- There have already been close to a hundred written reviews posted by paying customers who give TextBlade a hardcore workout daily.

I think what the OP meant was 'independent reviews from journalists' as evinced by his mentioning MacRumors and Apple Insider. I don't' know about you but I don't consider every comment under an Amazon product an official "review".

- So that brings us to today, in 2019.  3 years of real world testing done by a lot of real customers, and their reviews.  More than most amazon review pages.

First of all, their "reviews" are not accurate because (and correct me if I'm wrong) they don't have the final model -- unless of course they are, in which case it would beg the question: why don't you ship?

So the only thing that’s ‘telling’ here is how this reality, somehow got spun up into ‘no reviews for 4 years’.  Reality is quite different from spin.

So, there's the MacRumors article, the "hundreds" of "customer reviews", and this one. Are there any other you can tell us about? I'd love to read it.

‘Distortion’ was a very apt title.

Snide remark. See the difference from correction?