Hi David, we've already been through this situation before with our first Jot Touch, so we're pretty familiar with the way it needs to go. There's already a solid Jot Touch userbase out there, and app developers just need time to integrate the new SDK.

We are not waiting for developers to get interested in the new Jot Touch; they were lining up asking for our SDK months ago. The developers received their retail ready Jot Touches and the SDK several weeks ago, and they've been working on updating their apps. A few apps have been updated already.

What we know, on the basis of our experience last year, is that users do not want to pay $90 for a stylus which just acts like a Jot Pro. We also know from our experience last year that professional reviewers want to see a product which is well supported by apps; the most common complaint by users and professional reviewers last year was that we released the product before it had sufficient app support (though it was acknowledged we had to wait for the developers).

We haven't decided on a specific release date yet, but it will be in March.

Mik, we announced a price some months ago; it has been mentioned several times on our Facebook site and on our forums. :)

That site is not a fake, it's our UK distributor. However, they have not been authorized to make that announcement, and we will be asking them to remove it.

When there's a solid release date for the Jot Touch, it will be announced. Until then I can't give you any more information because I don't have any. Right now our Facebook page and blog are the best places for up to date information. This video showing the Jot Touch in action (with retail packaged Jot Touch in the background), was posted on our Facebook page today.

Dear Luke,

I can't give you an official release date yet. However, I can tell you that there will be no pre-orders, and that all our customers will have equal purchasing opportunities.

James, check our list of Jot Touch optimized apps on this page.

http://adonit.net/product/jot-ready-apps/

Sketchbook Pro has been requested by a number of our customers, and we've contacted the developers of this app.

According to our engineers, our Jot SDK was removed from the very latest version of Procreate, and will be included in the next update; the Procreate developers are clearly still working out a few issues.

Thanks Philipp, that's very useful. We realise that a sample of one customer is statistically insignificant, which is why we're asking other customers, and checking ourselves. I'll have a word to our engineers and see if I can answer your other questions.

Philipp, we've already had one customer using the latest version of Procreate inform us that it is not aligning the Jot stylus tip correctly on the screen, and is off-setting it the way non-optimized apps do; we are investigating the issue, and can't comment yet on how accurate the claim is.

Until we can confirm that all the apps whose developers we gave our SDK have integrated it completely and reliably for the current Jot models, we can't release the Jot Touch, which relies on the SDK even more.

Dear Tom and Andrew, we're aware that there's a market for a cheaper pressure sensitive stylus supported by only one or two apps. We're interested in the larger market for a much better developed stylus with support by a dozen or more apps. We realise this isn't going to suit everyone, but it's the larger market.

Dear Raymond, we're as excited about it as you are! We're in regular contact with app developers, and we're really hoping that the key apps will finish up with our SDK soon. We've had notice of one releasing a new version of their app with our SDK already, so we have good hopes that the others won't be too far behind.

Dear Raymond, I doubt people would be interested in paying US$100 for a stylus which doesn't have pressure sensitivity, especially when this is a key feature of the product as advertised. We have had well over a dozen app developers contact us asking for our SDK after their users asked them to make their app compatible with our Jot, and it makes sense to let them complete the integration. I doubt our customers would appreciate being told that they can buy a US$100 stylus which works in one or two applications, and that they will have to wait an unspecified amount of time for functionality in the app they requested specifically.

Dear Mohammed and Andrew, I would love to be able to give you a shipping date for the Jot Touch, but unfortunately I can't. We are still waiting on several popular app developers to complete their integration of our Jot SDK with their product.

We're hoping to release the Jot Touch next month.