TextBladeDenied

WayTools_Support said:

This also shows just how much he cares about his (anonymous) reputation.  His posts are indeed the work of a professional.

All I am doing is holding you to the original terms of the sale. I realize how much you hate that.

Everyone who has criticized you and ridiculed you is a customer or former customer that you lied to repeatedly.

Do you want to force refund me? Maybe you should force refund everybody. But you cant let go of all that money, can you? Thats what its all about.

I understand this is hard, with you being the victim and all. All you did was collect $1,000,000+ from 10,000+ people and lie to them for 4+ years. Why are you so persecuted?

WayTools_Support said:

And fortuitously, we’ve now too been educated about”lying liars” vs. mere liars.  

What matters most is informing the public about the chief executive con artist at Waytools, Mark Knighton, and demonstrating how he engages with this customers.

Keep digging Mark. Everybody is watching.


Two pallets of aging Textblades with expired batteries.  Millions of dollars collected from 10,000+ customers? 4+ years. No product shipped. No keys for kids. Who has the money? Mark Knighton has the money.

Rolanbek said:

arkorott said:

@WayTools_Support: I repeat the request. Can you outline in broad strokes with potential "estimated" dates for completion of the new firmware and the rest of the hurdles to be overcome until GR ? That would convey a general sense of project status for everybody. 

Seconded. 

R

I disagree. All Waytools (Mark Knighton) ever does is vomit broad generalizations all over the internet, which leaves them (Mark Knighton) with many ways to weasel out of whatever fake vague estimates he provides. Why do you want a 'potential estimated date' for completion of firmware when no 'estimate' he has ever provided before has been remotely true?

We don't even know the real reason why Mark is rewriting the firmware. It could be to fix bugs, or to add features, but it also could be that he had to change the hardware. A chip sourced 4+ years ago might be unobtainable 4 years later. The software libraries or software development tools he originally relied upon could be deprecated or defunct. When you take 4 or 5 years to build a prototype device in the world of tech, you might end up having even more problems than you started with. Do you think Mark Knighton is going to be honest about what is really going on? Not a chance.

What everyone should be asking Mark to provide are the most specific details possible to help define what the holdup is.

Mark Knighton should provide a list of specifications for the device which meet the goals for shipping, and whether or not each of those specs have been met. 

For example, Mark has blathered on forever about Bluetooth performance, but he has never defined what 'acceptable' Bluetooth performance is, so we never know if the Bluetooth issues are resolved or nearly resolved or not at all resolved.

Mark writes updates where he says complete gibberish nonsense - 'issues declining, progress progressing, movement is forward, up is rising, and down is receding' - but it means nothing, because nobody knows how much further the issues must decline, nobody knows how much more progress must progress. Every update begins at an undefined point and ends at an unstated goal.

What are the specs? What tests are being done to declare the specs as met or unmet? Must the device remain connected to a Bluetooth host non-stop for 8,766 hours continuously without a single disconnect before it is deemed acceptable? Must 'jumps' occur in less than 5ms? Do inadvertent characters produced with accurate robotic Q-Bot stabs have to occur less than 1 in 10,000,000,000 key presses?  Every one of these things could be and should be stated numerically when designing a device, along with a clear status for each specification: we have or have not exceeded/met/obtained some spec by some value (whatever the case may be).

And yes, of course, Mark could reach a goal, and then change it and say 'No, Jumps must happen in less than 1us, not 5ms, and inaccurate keypresses must occur less often than protons decay, and Bluetooth connections must last longer than the age of the universe.' Fine. We cant stop Mark from being ridiculous and insane, but at least, if he communicated specifics, then customers could better understand why he refuses to ship and make more informed decisions about whether to buy into the continuing BS.

This device is not as complicated as the entire universe. Its a little gadget with a finite set of features. There is no reason why Waytools could not communicate precisely and effectively about the causes of the holdups.

So why wont Mark talk to people - rationally, professionally, respectfully? Why does he care so little about his reputation?

Because Mark Knighton is a lying liar.

Mark is lying mostly by omission about the reasons for the record breaking delays. The real reasons are: Mark did not have a working product in 2015, and he knew it, but he lied and said he did. Mark cannot admit that original lie, so he must keep lying about everything else since. Mark Knighton collected millions of dollars from orders (he alleges), and then spent 4+ years and all that money to produce around 131 known prototypes, and now, he does not have the money or resources to produce enough working devices to fulfill all the orders. He needs publicity to keep the Ponzi scheme operational.

That last post from the Waytools_Support character (Mark Knighton) was so typical of the individual we have all come to know over the past 4+ years. Whoever thinks and talks like that is mentally ill, and devoid of ethics. But he does the same thing over and over again. Deflect. Obfuscate. Lie. BS.

Mark Knighton is not going to answer your questions. He is not going to ship any keyboards. Do not give him your money.

10,000+ people gave Mark Knighton $1,000,000+ dollars, and all he has delivered are, at best, 131 unfinished prototypes with deteriorating batteries, rubber feet that fall off, PCBs that crack, electrical shielding that is insufficient, cheap paint that wears away after a few months, keycaps that break, a cheap little plastic stand that no longer fits the phones it was originally devised for, and an operating system which cannot reliably connect to Bluetooth hosts or produce a consistent user experience.  Total fail.

And no one is particularly interested in the pointless speculation and vapid opinions of Mark Knighton's screeching little monkey Kahuna. Kahuna insists he does not work for Waytools, but every day, Mark Knighton lets Kahuna speak for and represent the company. Its a charade. A facade. A scam.


Two pallets of aging Textblades with expired batteries.  Millions of dollars collected from 10,000+ customers? 4+ years. No product shipped. No keys for kids. Who has the money? Mark Knighton has the money.

Rolanbek said:

dabigkahuna said:

Good thing I'm not a hypocrite then.

Well that appears to show a staggering lack of self awareness. 

Well stated.

I boggle at the capacity of some people to be either totally oblivious to their own bad behavior, or shamelessly dismissive of all the evidence of it when confronted with such. 

Not many are like this, and thus rarely meet, and thus rarer still attempt to work together when they do. But when it happens, it would seem this is the sort of scenario you typically wind up with. WayTools. Activator Supply Company, Inc. Diamond Mortgage Company. Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. Etc. The mindset of this type of person tends towards duplicitous if not criminal behavior.

Kahuna is an (extremely tedious) propagandist. In my opinion, there is no good will in what he is doing, shilling for a likely ponzi scheme. He got his return on investment as a 'treg tester', now he is playing his part to keep the money flowing in.

When something nice is offered, be it a great product, or a great investment, people line up. Many people are trusting, hopeful, and ultimately, gullible, and it is hard for them to see or admit when they have been tricked.

Nancy B. Brown said:

There was even a case study written about it: https://capacify.wordpress.com/2017/01/14/still-waiting-for-the-textblade/ 

Thanks for the link. Interesting comments section. The Waytools shills are always ready to pounce and proclaim the product great and ready to ship! (2+ years ago!)

dabigkahuna said:

 I do fight for truth and justice though.

No - you do not. You conveniently sidestepped the main point again. You enable Waytools bad behavior. You act as a shill and a propagandist for a disreputable and dishonest company. And we are supposed to believe this is your hobby? No.

dabigkahuna said:

Well, since I don't care if they 'left' me, I guess I don't much care about his fundamental point. I don't need any help.

The point was not that they left 'you'. (I find it absolutely remarkable how you seem to miss the essential point of every sentence directed at you).

The point was that they left the field. Period. ('They' being Mark Knighton.)  Waytools_Support abandoned any pretense of responding to valid criticism and disappeared after making a bunch of remarks that further blackened the already irreparably stained reputation of the company. They offered no direct or immediate solution to any of the primary problems. They are keeping all the money, and they still have given no indication they will ever ship a product. The currently published dates for 'estimated' shipping are, as they always have been, pure fabrication.

dabigkahuna said:

Even those who are placating you by playing nice for a few rounds know you are totally disingenuous.

You need to work on your phrasing because you basically just declared that they weren't playing nice before.

Again, you totally miss the point! (incredible) The point is that everyone - literally, everyone - knows how disingenuous you are in what you are doing.

Obviously you are going to get the last word, since you are paid to be here doing what you do. I concede that.

The bottom line is, Waytools must be routinely exposed for what they are and what they have done to minimize their ability to defraud people. People must be cautioned against giving them money for a product that will never ship. Hopefully this is the last time any reputable publisher will make the same mistakes Macrumors and Appleinsider have made. I hope the author of this article reads these comments, and considers a serious followup, with on the record quotes from Mark Knighton regarding the many issues raised here. Waytools does not deserve any publicity, unless it is an unequivocal warning to avoid them like the plague.

You have to consider Kahuna behavior from perhaps three perspectives at most:

1  He works for Waytools or has been otherwise compensated by Waytools and/or Mark Knighton. This explains his online behavior entirely.

2  He does not work for Waytools. He is therefore a person of highly questionable motives who long ago decided to embark upon a trolling campaign on behalf of a company whose product he purchased and received (unlike the other 98.5% of people who paid for the same product), presumably because he can think of nothing more productive to do with his time.

3  He is a modern day superhero who has committed himself to fighting in defense of truth, justice, and the Waytools way, sort of like a guy who puts on a Superman costume and ventures out into the night to fight crime, except in this case the faux Supe wears only the upper half of his costume, stays in his bedroom, and defends, on internet forums, the indefensible actions of a passive-aggressive active-aggressive dishonest disreputable unethical little keyboard company, while allowing numerous other miscarriages of truth and justice throughout the world to go completely unanswered.

1  makes perfect sense
2  is an uncharitable description of a rather sad, lonely, unimaginative, and unintelligent individual
3  sheer lunacy no matter which angle you examine it from

To even suggest options 2 or 3 are within the quantum realm of theoretical possibilities, Kahuna will insist you are just an unreasonable meanie. So, option 1 it is then.

Kahuna, you intentionally ignore (hence your hypocrisy, glaring to all, invisible to you) Rolanbeks fundamental point. Waytools left the field, leaving you in their stead. Waytools refuses to communicate professionally with their customers. Waytools relies on you to post hundreds of pages of nonsense so that any serious inquiries or meaningful answers can be ignored or buried. Whatever bad behavior you might agree Waytools is actually responsible for: you enable it, by doing what you do. Because you do what you do, they keep doing what they do.

You are a bad actor Kahuna. Its apparent to everyone. Even those who are placating you by playing nice for a few rounds know you are totally disingenuous.