Panic has a history of delivering thoughtful, well-made software. Their initial foray into games (Firewatch, Untitled Goose Game, Nour) were all excellent and novel. Combine that with Teenage Engineering's similar novel and excellent track record with hardware design and you've got a very interesting product to those that like Panic's software and/or like good hardware design. If nothing else this product will be novel and well considered.

If that's not your cup of tea, cool. But there's a lot here for several communities.

The story is less about the device, and more about the chip shortage. Having to wait two years for a CPU is just crazy, and it’s interesting to watch the hoops that these companies have to go through in order to ship products. I don’t know anything about the device itself, but do you find it interesting to watch how do chip shortage is affecting different manufacturers.

People get super upset when you say this, but like much of Panic's other hardware (like their Mini-ITX case) you're also paying for the mythos.

Like I said from the get-go that most of these will be used as desk ornaments (albeit pretty and functional ones)

Not long after Panic announced a dock with a pen holder.

They know their market, people with a lot of disposable income and a want to a showpiece that's not as flashy as gold pen or something

I can see why it's cool and the me from 15 years ago might have bought one. But the current me just tires of more useless crap constantly being built that will just end up in someone's junk drawer 3 months from arrival and in the landfill years later.

I think it's like that statistics about most of purchased Steam games not being played or something like that. You buy an idea that you could have enjoyed this device.

There's apparently a pretty big market for plastic doodads that do the same thing your computer can, but with a crank. It's like they ripped a page straight out of Apple's playbook and made an iPod for gaming.