Yea, it's pretty crappy. If you're a miner already any mining they do is reducing your income, in fact— even if your not: their mining now will increase difficulty at the next retarget when (hopefully!) you'll have received your miners. Sure, a single unit isn't much, but on the principle of it they are taking from their customers by doing this.
It's perfectly possible to test on a test harness or testnet, even superior: Testing on the real network will often fail to discover things like devices losing performance when blocks or coinbase transactions are large (a common firmware flaw that _several_ vendors have shipped with).
The incomplete/dodgy/air open unit that you're presented with should have been shipped
yesterday months ago, and your only concern is about the few satoshis they're mining now?
You've been fucked BFL way, as it was bound to happen, given the dozens of redflags since it all started...
The shill twitter account deletion, for one, - they never explained - was stinky enough to stay away from the whole thing.
And there is no way back, now.
Sad.
As soon as they ship the first unit, they will go for another pre-order marvel.
And your duty, at that point, will be
not to pre-order. Please.
