No, in point of fact. This thread is about when the iOS version of Scrivener is coming. And a Bluetooth keyboard is one component in a stop-gap solution until that happens. It is very much on topic.
But thanks for playing.
In that case, speaking of the arrival of the app, I should mention that my stop gap is a Moleskine Sketchbook and a black Pilot .5mm roller point pen. I like the heavy paper in that particular book, and the pen gives a beautiful dark line, with just enough drag on each stroke.
That might be a little old school for some of us… 
And therefore discussion of the licence conditions for that product is there germane to the discussion. More so than stop-gaps. Advantage me.
I’m not sure what you are expecting of us, but Scrivener for iOS is certainly not going to mitigate the need for a keyboard to do any serious writing on a device that is essentially otherwise a small smudgy television screen. 
@AmberV, I would hardly expect anything else. BT keyboard is part of my setup, despite having to retire a perfectly functional IR keyboard when I finally replaced my aging Palm Lifedrive with an iPad 2. I’m now on my second iPad (gen 3, bought used.) I would never expect to do serious writing without a hardware keyboard.
As far as stopgap solutions – if you don’t mind plain text and no synopses nor document notes, Dropbox and the Editorial text editor are worth considering. Editorial has a great dark theme, absolutely seamless Dropbox sync, and works offline when you need to. The plain text options on the external folder sync in Scriv work just fine. I waffle back and forth between Editorial and Index Card – Editorial’s great Dropbox integration v. Index Card’s crummy integration but with synopses and document notes…
Inline noting works with Editorial (and IndexCard, and presumably any other plain text editor.) Use double parens around a note in plain text and they’re translated to inline annotations when syncing back to Scriv. It’s a partial workaround to the synopses/notes problem.
BTW, I tried the latest version of Index Card (3? 4?) and went back to the old one with the cork board icon. The sync was too buggy.
Just to clarify re all this talk about syncing - only works on the Mac. So us PC users have been pretty limited as to what we can use for a work-around.
In what way? Slow, or did you loose text?
Nope. That was off-topic. And I said so when I brought it up.
I can type on-screen — no external keyboard — at close to 60wpm. I could (I’d rather not) type an entire book with nothing but the iPad itself. And its screen is only smudgy when I smudgy it up. Otherwise the display is quite astounding
Of course everybody has their own tools. So whatever works for you.
Yup! I keep reading peoples ‘workarounds’ and then get disappointed as I find it’s another one which only works on MAC.
Syncing may only work on Mac — I feel for you — but the idea of a remote desktop should be fairly universal, so maybe give that a try?
And the Windows version has no syncing ability at all?
Now that’s a bizarre admission. You brought up something and immediately ruled it off topic!
But as it happens discussion of how and why of purchase of the iOS version of Scrivener is very much on topic. So six match points to me.
Isn’t the most obvious ‘workaround’ to buy a Mac? 
Had a die hard windows guy buy a mac to “prove the hype wrong”. Ordered a full house worth of apple products after a week. Might be worth a few $$ just to see if all the mac people are on to something.
If you are on Windows and want to check out the Mac world and things in it, such as the Mac vs Windows versions of Scrivener or Mac-only competitors to Scrivener, MacInCloud (remote control of a Mac in the cloud) is an affordable low-risk option. In my case, I was curious as to Scrivener differences and was also looking into multi-column editors such as OmniOutliner. For me, the Mac OS X environment didn’t immediately spark any strong interest, Scrivener differences didn’t seem that great given how I currently use Scrivener (basic writing/editing and preliminary compiling for proofing), OmniOutliner looked impressive but at first glance not as/sufficiently well generalized/rounded as Scrivener… and it turns out Scrivener supports multi-column outlining in both Mac and Windows versions (add additional/custom column/meta-data headers, then are available for selection and use in Outlining view).
P.S. After a day’s glitch, the latest version (v3, dated 8/11/2015) of Parallels Access remote control software, once updated on both iPad and PC/Windows side, now works with Windows 10 and adds use in portrait mode on the iPad (enabling full, if scrunched, PC screen and onscreen keyboard to both be visible without overlaying each other). Yay!
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming on this channel.
Not sure what you’re talking about now. Seems maybe you’re a person who just argues for argument’s sake? Not sure what what the above means.
Remote access isn’t a real contender (If I’m thinking about what you mean) as mostly I’m on a train and on crappy 3G. Also, I actually did consider a mac laptop. But the price is way out of my range.
I love Scrivener for what I use it for. I don’t have a problem with the lack of sync as I use it currently on two PCs, accessing projects in Dropbox. that works a treat. I just want a way to do the say with my iPad. I’ll wait though. 
Awkward as always, and the changed documents didn’t show up in the “Updated Documents” collection. Particularly with Index Card I check the UD collection to make sure that I got synced what I wanted to get synced, before I lose track of where I was in the project. Right after syncing it’s pretty easy to trace back any discrepancies through IC on the iPad and the automatic snapshots in Scriv. After two weeks it’s more of a challenge than I want to deal with. So while I didn’t actually lose text, I didn’t feel secure.