I joined this group buy in Jan 2016. At that point the project was already 18months old. I asked and was assured that it was still alive so I paid. Its now December 2016 and the website for the project does not project having shippable product until Fall 2017.
At some point incompetence simply becomes fraud. How about a refund, or was this just a scam all along?
Matias has already said they will issue a refund to anyone that doesn't want to wait.
I asked for a refund recently and got it, so I can attest to this.
Yes, it's disappointing when an established company takes this long to produce a keyboard (I'm also looking at you, TextBlade). There are Kickstarter/Indiegogo campaigns involving much more complex tech that has gotten done faster than this. But I actually don't mind waiting for pre-ordered products if it's not something I urgently need. I mean, I have far too many keyboards already, so it's really just a luxury item for me.
The reason I cancelled my order was because I just don't have any patience for keyboard layouts that require me to use Fn combos for often used keys anymore, because they are just not worth the trouble when you need to be productive (I use Function keys all the time when using Photoshop, as well as just in general). I now also think this quest to make keyboards smaller is counterproductive, because ergonomically, once you shrink past TKL layout, ergonomics in relation to muscle memory drops in efficiency, since there are less tactile cues to find keys without looking (such as useful gaps between key clusters), and Fn combos are not ideal. Realistically, just how many people have so tiny of a desk space that they desperately need to shave off size from a TKL keyboard? I'm going to sell off all of my non-TKL keyboards at this point because after years of trying different layouts, none are better than TKL for me.
