Bladepad MFi Controller Delayed Indefinitely
Blade Electronics broke their 5-month-long silence to announce that their upcoming Bladepad MFi controller will not, in fact, be releasing this month, as had previously been hinted.
Blade Electronics says:
Hey everyone, we are sure that many of you are wondering when/if Bladepad is still being produced. […] Apple has strict requirements, which they are constantly changing, and they are very difficult to communicate with so it is not an easy process to get through. We honestly have no idea how much longer it will take to push this through, but we are still here working on it and communicating with Apple as frequently as they will respond. […] For the time being, Bladepad is delayed indefinitely
Looks like Bladepad is blaming Apple’s MFi spec requirements on this one, saying Apple keeps changing plans and shifting the requirements out from under the Blade Electronics team. Perhaps Apple is making things difficult, perhaps there’s two sides to every story. Lacking any other details or information on what’s actually happening here, it’s hard to say one way or another. We waited 5 months for this information saying basically “keep waiting”. Before that, the last real update was 3 months previously, and it basically amounted to them announcing another Bladepad delay while launching a Kickstarter for an iPhone battery that didn’t support the iPhone.
I’m not sure what’s happening with the Bladepad, but my gut feeling is, if this is the MFi controller you’re waiting for, you’re probably in for a disappointment.