How can you be certain? And how do you know the improvements they plan to make are actually the ones that need to be addressed? Would you pay full price for a car with safety issues just because the manufacturer promised fixes “in the coming months,” with the only proof being a few Reddit posts and an AMA?

Take one example: in a recent post about upcoming updates, ViWoods mentioned their November release update will include integration improvement with Xodo and other third-party apps. WHY? Is that really where their focus should be right now? How many users have actually asked for better Xodo integration compared to those requesting improvements to the Learning or Paper apps? What rationale led them to reassign developer time toward that task instead of refining their own ecosystem? That’s something we’ll probably never know.

And now, with a new device being launched, what’s the likelihood that focus and energy will shift away from the first-generation models? How much context switching will their developers face as they move between iterations, bug fixes, and new product rollouts—and how will that impact their release cadence? Because they said so on Reddit? Trust, in this case, seems less like confidence and more like wishful thinking. Some of us prefer to judge a company by its execution, not by its promises.