TextBladeDenied

patientlywaiting said:

That's not my point. My point is about the necessity of a feature freeze.

You are pointing out something so obvious, it seems inconceivable they did not know it, or learn it, many years ago.

Imagine for a moment, actually working for Mark Knighton as a software developer. Consider the way he communicates, and then imagine working under someone like that. He has probably gone through at least 2 or 3 developers since the inception of this project and driven a couple of poor bastards insane in the process. He probably kept asking the developers to add more and more and more features, year after year, until one finally snapped, fired up 'Take This Job and Shove It' by Johnny Paycheck on Youtube, set the volume to 11, and screamed at him 'It is full !!!! Nothing and I mean nothing else is going to fit in your 5 year old hardware!! I quit!' and stormed out of the building to find a new less stressful career, like gathering acorns for disabled chipmunks in the forest.

arkorott said:

You might be passionate but I think you are also very smart, and you are doing it all wrong. Leave emotions out the door and talk ONLY about the TB

If they are doing it all wrong, then why do you think they are very smart? ('They' being Mark Knighton of course, who refers to himself as 'we' and 'us'). It doesnt make a lot of sense, wouldnt you agree? Smart people do not behave so stupidly. Smart people are quite capable of acting maliciously however.

Why do you try hard so hard to placate the person on the other end of this line? Do you really think it will work? He has been behaving this way since the beginning, for over 4 years.

Reminder:  http://alturl.com/3qyj5


>There are too many unknowns when talking to "Waytools_support". Some here have assumed that the hands behind the keys are those of Mark himself. 

Rolanbek: Do the math. We have a CEO, Mark Knighton, who micro manages every aspect of this operation, who is widely reported to talk to each of his testers for many hours at a time and handles their tech support calls at all hours of the day and night, handles all of the PR, and is the primary financier. The journalists all report interacting with him directly. Nobody ever mentions another key player at the company, that I can recollect. Do you think that kind of guy would delegate all public communications to someone else and let them botch it so badly? Do you think Mark Knighton would empower his social media 'Waytools_Support' employee to force refund customers at will using his own judgement? And then there is the 'dialect' (I use the term loosely) of the Waytools_Support / Waytools character on AI and the Waytools forum. There arent two people in the world who 'speak' the way the Waytools screen name speaks. Its the same person, and that person is Mark Knighton. 

WayTools_Support said:

Blimey!  Of course it doesn’t exist.  In the alternate reality you laboriously craft, up is down, and right is wrong.  And all those customer reports are imaginary.

In the alternate reality you laboriously craft, the product was ready to ship in 2015, and all those subsequent promises of imminent shipping were imaginary. You really make a fool of yourself with the weak attempts at self-righteousness.

weirdosmurf said:

 If you want to be insanely generous and give me my money back whilst still delivering my multiple TextBlades and free gift when they’re ready (without needing me to pay a second time),

They should refund everyone, absorb any costs related to exchange rates and credit card fees, notify people when the product is actually ready to ship so people can activate their orders again, and then ship the product. Its very simple. It is the only ethical course of action.

dabigkahuna said:

For those of us who missed it, in the past there have been complaints about refunds because of the changing monetary rates. So, it was argued, one of the reason to oppose the refunds was because it could actually result in a return of less value that it was when ordered. But now doing that to everyone is fine???

The obvious and ethical solution would be for Waytools to cover any such disparity in refund value as a result of their negligent 4+ year delay. Clearly Waytools is entirely responsible for damages to the injured parties.

dabigkahuna said:

> The AI article quotes you as saying '[the] money from these orders is not what's funding the company.'  If that is true, then how is anybody 'helping' by letting you keep their money?

If you think about it you can probably come up with a logical reason. But somehow I don't think you will.

Mark makes a statement about customer money furthering the release of the product, which directly contradicts the quote in the article that the development is funded without customer money. You ignore that contradiction entirely, because you are a Waytools shill with a narrative to defend. Fail.

dabigkahuna said:

I'm shocked to hear someone say he didn't did deeply into issues in the comment section - WHICH WEREN'T WRITTEN UNTIL AFTER HIS ARTICLE. 

Every point of criticism rendered on this thread exists similarly on Macrumors, Reddit, and the Waytools forum, and were publicly available to research before this article. You know that, but again fabricate a straw man argument to further your narrative. And your choice of all-caps does not make your lame argument stronger. Fail.