Everyone wants to know more about progress towards shipping. Wish I could help you there, but while people in Treg may know more than others, we typically don’t have the kind of information that would let us know when WayTools will ship.

But I do keep a rough chart of what people are reporting on the Slack boards. While I won’t give out individual reports (testers can decide for themselves if they want to share their personal experiences), I can give a more general report.

There is one problem that seems to be the fault of Apple, which causes bluetooth connection issues. I do not know if WayTools can find a workaround for this, but once a user knows about it, it isn’t hard for them to avoid it in most cases.

The reason I say, “most cases” is because some reports sound like they may be different. Could be related or could have a different cause.

So, depending on how you look at this, it could be a gating issue or not. Personally, if it is Apple’s problem and I can’t do a workaround at WayTools, I’d still ship. I just wish I knew more about those cases which are about connections, but have some different symptoms.

Most of the rest have to do with individual key issues, typically swaps. I suspect a lot of us have, at one time or another, had swap issues. Fortunately, it seems they have ended for most of us as well. I don’t know why a few still have these issues. And it may depend on what OS they are using. I also believe at least one of them hadn’t yet updated to the latest App version (which helped my problems a lot).

Based on these things - and only these things - I’m feeling pretty good about shipping. But then we have to factor in all the stuff involved in mass production. How many can they produce a day? How well does quality control hold up? These are important factors for even the biggest companies and there isn’t a single thing that I know about how things stand at this time.

Not long ago, WayTools seemed to say that hardware was not a problem. From reports I’ve seen, that seems to be so. Since then I feel the firmware and app changes have made big strides to solve issues there with just a handful reporting issues still. So I’m very hopeful that this part is about done too.

But that still leaves the mass production step, which is a complete unknown.