An excellent post, as always. I also see myself in all three "camps", often all at the same time.
Picking up on the point about consistently missing promised delivery dates, and the company line "we are perfecting it and making sure it is 100% free of issues": I might be prepared to buy that if Devialet had established a record of bug-free delivery. Since they clearly have not, it takes no more than the smallest grain of cynicism to interpret this as a smoke screen for a bad internal planning and software development process. Indeed, I would say it takes a healthy dose of naivety to take it at face value. And what really galls me is the arrogance Devialet display in expecting customers to swallow it. Sadly now I feel I'm firmly in category 3 territory...
... but as I write this I'm listening to a great album on my 400, which is sounding wonderful. Back in category 1!
ETA: Maybe Devialet really /are/ perfecting Dialog/Expert integration and are determined to make it bug-free on release. That would be great. Let's be positive, it could happen.
Picking up on the point about consistently missing promised delivery dates, and the company line "we are perfecting it and making sure it is 100% free of issues": I might be prepared to buy that if Devialet had established a record of bug-free delivery. Since they clearly have not, it takes no more than the smallest grain of cynicism to interpret this as a smoke screen for a bad internal planning and software development process. Indeed, I would say it takes a healthy dose of naivety to take it at face value. And what really galls me is the arrogance Devialet display in expecting customers to swallow it. Sadly now I feel I'm firmly in category 3 territory...
... but as I write this I'm listening to a great album on my 400, which is sounding wonderful. Back in category 1!
ETA: Maybe Devialet really /are/ perfecting Dialog/Expert integration and are determined to make it bug-free on release. That would be great. Let's be positive, it could happen.
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