I didn't say it was. I said if they pretend that was never said. You know, similar to how they said S3 Batch 1 customers would receive a rebate/coupon when they missed their promised hashrate. Then they didn't do what they said and NEVER mentioned it again.
Are you trying to say they did not compensate Batch 1 customers?
Did the S1 upgrades get released the same day as the S3's? Nope. Patience, they will come.
You have nothing on which to base that statement. In fact, BITMAIN's past behavior supports my expectation.
How come? S1 upgrade kit is available. Is that "nothing"?
That's a fair point.
You are right in that they did state they expect to release in August/September, but they didn't give a concrete date and we are still in September. Not to mention this was from May, which is like a century in this industry.
A short good news for the S2 buyer is that we will let the S2 to upgrade to 1.8TH/s or 2TH/s at very low cost which you can only image now in the August or September. It still depends on many factors to let us achieve that and detailed plan needs to be drafted, But we are very confident that we can make it.
I'm more referring to these posters who act like they have some special insight into the workings of BITMAIN.
It sounds like this is directed at me. The only insight I have is to trends and rational business decisions. S1 came before S2, S3 came before S1 Upgrade, exactly as expected. Why would S2 upgrades, using same chips as S4's, come before S4 sales? They are a business trying to expand their customer base as well as keep their existing customers happy, but priorities exist. There is absolutely no benefit to taking the same chips from their current manufacturing of S3's and soon S4's which will sell like hotcakes and put them into S2 upgrades for their existing customers, because those customers will surely still be there when the S4 sales slow down, and the S2 upgrades get released.
Now, if you just want to chastise a manufacturer about missing deadlines and under-performing, you should bark up another tree. Bitmain is one of the few that have treated their customers with respect, and I for one can't see where they failed to deliver on a promise, with the exception of hashrate for the early S3 batches. They are still better than nearly every other manufacturer on the market today, which is why they have so many fan-boys sticking up for them. Like me.
