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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
Of course it isn't nice for the backers, most of whom probably weren't aware of the Tweedles before they started selling e-readers.
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That would initially have been me. A quick glance at their website seemed to suggest that they were genuine. There was a working prototype and they were based in Canada... I was very nearly ready to put money down.
Then, I came here and started reading about some of their past endeavors. After that, I looked more closely at their website and videos. That convinced me to just wait to see how the campaign unfolded. Glad I didn't make the leap even though I would have preferred a dual touch device.
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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
But for someone who has followed them a bit, it was a disaster waiting to happen, and there is a certain morbid satisfaction in watching it unfold exactly the way it was bound to.
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Indeed, that's why I have continued to follow their campaign so closely even though I purchased a Max. It has been jaw dropping to watch some of their blunders such as running a promotional campaign to attract new backers yet not extending the same discount to existing backers who have waited more than a year to get the device and were still waiting. Or shipping the devices wildly out of sequence (How is it possible that order #499 got his device when order # 39 was apparently still waiting?).
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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
(Though some details developed differently - I never expected them to find that many backers, and when they did, I was wondering for a little while if they might actually make their project work for their customers. Call me naive...)
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It really looked promising for a while. It should have been a success. The actual device doesn't look too bad were it to receive an update to the software to work out a few of the bugs.