gilli: gilli: Yeah well… After having shipped literally billions of actually working devices they risked announcing a product which obviously wasn’t ready yet, and they failed to finish it as announced.

A company the size of Apple can afford (both financially and reputation-ally) to release a product that is not quite fully baked to market and fix what’s not quite complete at a later date because like you’ve said, they have shipped literally billions of actually working devices and have benefited from that. This is WayTools one and only device at the moment. And this device has the potential to be game changer, but only if it hits the ball out of the park from day one. They can’t afford to be like Apple and release the “not fully baked” version and fix it with updates.

The concept of this being game changer evolved after TREG started with many testers saying that they are not only using the TextBlade with their mobile devices but also with their main computers and prefer to use the TextBlade over full sized keyboard options. I myself said the same thing after I first got into TREG. This seems to be the point where WayTools realized how big of an impact the TextBlade could have. I can certainly take some of the blame for the resulting delays for pointing this out to them but I can’t blame them for realizing that for this to happen, the General Release of the TextBlade needs to be almost flawless.

I think TREG testing opened their eyes on a few things. One was that the TextBlade wasn’t near as finished and ready for release as they initially thought it was. Had TREG testing occurred before the announcement and taking of orders and money, things might have been different. But we don’t have a Way-Back machine to go back and fix our mistakes, we must move forward and correct them however we can, which is what they are doing. The other thing TREG testing pointed out to them was that when all the major issues are addressed, the TextBlade will make an even bigger impact on the public than they ever anticipated. Hence all the delays to get it right.

gilli: gilli: None of the iconic Apple products were feature complete or even flawless in their first iteration. They were the implementation of a core feature which changed the way people would do things. They were a huge addition to people’s lives and the way they work. Based on that core feature, the products were refined and evolved over the next iterations, each iteration being a new and elevated contribution to what people can do.

Apple gets a pass when they do this simply because people look at their past devices and say they were right and eventually fixed what was wrong at release time. They’ve built this level of trust and reputation over a long period of time and product releases. People give them the benefit of the doubt and time to fix it. With WayTools, they don’t have that history of trust with the public so are being very cautious that a simple problem not addressed before GR does not tank the idea nor the company.

The biggest mistake you are making is, like many others here have said, thinking that WayTools are comparing themselves to Apple or Tesla. They are neither, nor are the size of either. What they ARE saying and have always said is that they admire these companies and strive to have the same attention to detail in their own products. With that initial attention to detail comes the reputation and trust from the general public so that maybe future products CAN be released with a few minor things to fix later and the buying public is able to say “damn, I’ll buy that now. Look at how good the TextBlade is”.

WayTools do need very much work on their communication skills, I don’t think anyone will argue that. But knowing that they are a small startup company, I would rather that they spend the majority of their time working out the last kinks than to try and constantly put out words to appease someone ranting that it’s taking too long. Now, saying that, I wouldn’t be opposed to WayTools taking some time to put out a quality update either, but not at the expense of delaying a general release.