Can people please stop comparing BFL to every other company. Being better than the worst is not a measure worth using.
It's like someone running you over in a car and then telling you that you're lucky, you could have been shot.
BFL was perceived as the market leader even in light of Avalon coming online. Its called a "control group"
I could have done the same thing by quoting Avalon for their 3 month delay on batch 3 units and/or the whole batch chip distribution debacle. But why would I do that...I'd rather focus on the big company that put in a ton of money into advertising and banners EVERYWHERE...and fucked everyone royally (I had my mercury money towards a bfl single for a couple months before hand, mind you)
Would you suggest a better "control group"?
bitfury is a chip mfg with their own subsidiary turnkey distribution channels bfstrikesback/megabigpower
Asicminer? Please. Those guys charged 10X the market value of their devices hand and fist - the only folks I saw buying up those units were the ones who were wary of BFL, missed out on Avalon Batch one, and had prior infrastructure in the form of GPU farms that they wanted to upgrade for power efficiency reasons.
so please friend....name a better control group for us to all compare KNC would you?
Sony. LG. Samsung.
Any provider of computer hardware.
The assumption that producing an ASIC miner is somehow bound to be a fuckup which excuses poor performance towards customers has to stop.
It's just a company producing a product and selling it...why should there even be a need to compare them to some sort of standard which dosen't exist when all we need to do is hold them to their promises and claims.
You don't hire a decorator and then look at the mess he made and say "Wow, could have been worse..thaat really crap guy would have made a bigger mess". You hold him responsible to hit a standard agreed with you. That's all that matters. Not how shite other decorators (or other ASIC makes) are.
Personally I can't see why KnC didn't release that news a couple of days ago. "Looks like we're going to miss our deadline and we're gutted, we hit a few unforseen snags that cost us a few days as we have told you in previous news (if they had done this), but we're in full production now, working weekend and have xxx units to get through at 350 a day currently. All orders should be caught up in 3 days. Sincere aplogies and thanks for your patience, love Sweaty Sam. xx
I''d have appreciated that. Easy to do but they didn't bother.
