I bought the ledger wallet, because I read on CCN about it. It seemed to be an easy and safe way to store bitcoins. The staff (support) was very helpful and friendly. Most of you knew, that there is a BUT coming real soon.
Well, here it is. This thing is absolutely worthless! You know why? Who cares, how simple you can use the ledger wallet or how safe and secure your bitcoins are stored on that particular device, if one is unable to set it up. This thing is marketed to Jon Doe owning BTC. It tells you all about the simple and secure way to transfer BTCs on any system simply by mounting a USB device. Yeah, but what they do not tell you - or state correctly - mention in a side note, how bad ass the setup process is.
YOU NEED TO BE A DEVELOPER TO SET IT UP SAFELY. I've been around the block, even work in an IT company, but no, I'm not a developer. I'm a user! I'm into tech. But I needed to ask a friend to wrap my head around the Virtual Box Machine thing, because I use OSX. Then it was easy to install VM. It was also easy to find a chromium image to run under VM. But of course, the Chrome version is too old. I spent hours in the net, tryiing several images from this URL
http://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/index.php?dir=daily%2Fwhich was recommended by Ledger wallet. But after the fourth bad image I gave up. Frustrated. Angry!
One may argue, it's not ledger wallet's fault, that you run OS X. It's also not their fault, that images in the internet are broken. Of course it is not their fault, that I'm not computer scientisticated enough to figure that one out. Yeah, one could say all of that. But ledger wallet is guilty of really really bad misleading marketing.
They sell the product to people, who are longing for a SIMPLE and EASY solution to store their bitcoins. Something everybody can understand. But they completely fail to WARN the potential user, that their easy product is only easy to use, but really really military grade complicated to setup.
Well of course, I could use my Mac as it is. But what sense does it make, buying a 39EUR device for security by jeopardizing all of it from the start? Correct, it doesn't make any sense. That's my point. Ledger wallet may be secure and easy to use. But to get there, it's as complicated as it gets. I'm gonna trash the crap, because by the time I spent trying to figure it out, I would have executed 100s of paper wallets and regular transactions.