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Hands-On With the Collapsible Magnetic 'TextBlade' Keyboard for iOS Devices
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Canceled my order this morning. (Apparently you can refund to a different card than the one you used for the order.) Nine months is pretty ridiculous and I realized that I'm not really excited for the product anymore. Besides, I carry my MBP around everywhere so I have a way to remote login anyway.
Yep - pretty much vapourware. Guess I will not only ask for a refund on Jan. 15 but also for interest and punitive damage. These guys are really lousy at communicating with potential customers and really, but really, but at asking for excuses for their delay. Other companies, for example the NONDA guys that wanted to manufacture an innovative hub for the new Macbook, simply after a couple of months accepted to not be able to complete their task and refunded out of their own initiative. This is what I would call a correct behaviour. Not the one put in place by the Textblade guys.... hence I guess, once the last date for possibile delivery has passed, refund + interest + punitive damages....Sorry guys, you wanted it that way!!!!
No thanks, the MS fold-able keyboard gives me the #1 thing I hate about the Surface line, their keyboard. Jorno FTW.
You're free to hate it all you like. I personally love it.
I don't see how. The best thing about the Surface Pro 4 is that they got away from that awful keyboard. Eww.. Tried the Jorno keyboard?
A big hello from March 2016. Still no sign of the textblade. Wonder if you have any further thoughts?
If you click the little arrow after "waytools said:" the forum pings you straight there. This thread post #248
Wait, they actually posted that here in MacRumors? Wow, how did I miss that?
EDIT: Oh, ok, this is the thread from March 2015. I thought I was in the more recent thread where Juli reported receiving a test unit.
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Wait, they actually posted that here in MacRumors? Wow, how did I miss that?
EDIT: Oh, ok, this is the thread from March 2015. I thought I was in the more recent thread where Juli reported receiving a test unit.
That was a story on MR. You'll have to look it up in the discussion forum..
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ipping-to-test-group-users-next-week.1957232/
EDIT: Oh, ok, this is the thread from March 2015. I thought I was in the more recent thread where Juli reported receiving a test unit.
It's the 1 year anniversary of MK's public paranoia attack. Thought I would bump, and see if there is any sign of life.
Nope, it seems.
The TREG testers have started to receive emails Saturday night that their units have already shipped earlier that day. Mine is due Monday. Finally some progress.
One of the things I noticed as a tester is that it wasn't particularly a matter of perfectionism, though I know that's what it looked like to many - including other testers before they got to try it.
I and others found various issues that did matter and were not just a drive for perfectionism. A number of them have stated online that they could see that some things needed fixing before shipping. For example, early on, I had more than one case where I pressed the delete key once and it just kept deleting! The whole page! To stop it, I had to separate the key blades to break contact to turn off the TB. That no longer happens, but it sure did matter when it did!
Now, maybe this never showed up in their testing and had something to do with how I type. But that is the purpose of TREG - to reveal things ordinary users may come up against and fix them.
We also found some timing issues based on how people type so they put in a setting that lets people choose the best one for them. Most people will just use the default. But I need to choose one extreme while some other testers use the opposite.
They may ALSO be too perfectionist, but since I know things I've seen justify delays, I really can't claim they are too perfectionist as well.
Also, on the question of honesty, I don't think the pattern of delays shows they were lying. You see, as I conjectured months ago, I felt this new tech could easily just keep popping up new problems. I also said that each problem may look easy to fix and thus they just kept delaying a month, thinking they'd fix the know problems and move on.
My testing and their reactions fully support my conjecture. You see, we found new problems too and, just as important, each time WT seemed to quickly find a solution. So both parts of my conjecture occurred during TREG. Which means it may well have deen happening all along.
The point is not how many issues you run into, the point is how long they have been saying "we are planning to ship next month". After over a year of that nonsense, I gave up on them and got my refund. I wish them the best, but they should have sent them out to the first group of buyers (I would have been one) to let the early adopters test them. They didn't had people sign up for the right to test it. That was wrong.