This forum needs to adopt a strict policy of closing these threads as duplicates, I'm quite tired of re-reading this same BS every day from a new person (or, more likely, the sockpuppet of one of the previous people).
You're not having an original thought, no one needs to have this discussion again, there is no new information to add to the conversation. Search before you post.
To paraphrase Meatball, no one put a gun to your head and made you read this thread. The title was pretty clear in what the content would be, you could simply have chosen not to open it. If a thread is unwanted, no one responds, and it quickly falls off the page.
There's nothing wrong with investors asking the ASIC vendor's what's going on, but the problem is that every single one of them has responded multiple times with the same basic thing, "They'll be done, when they're done." Yet we see more posts every day of people asking the same thing, when will they be done, why aren't they done already, they must be scammers because they didn't hit their date, etc., etc. Believe me, I want my ASIC's too right now too. I'm tired of dealing with the noise/heat of GPU mining, but there's not a thing I can do about it, and if I was truly concerned, I'd ask for a refund.
I would say that the problem isn't that people keep asking and getting the same response, it's that the response is unhelpful. Saying "it will happen when it happens" is basically not a response at all (this applies to all MFGs). The latest incident with BFL is perfect example of why people are repeatedly asking for transparency. They are told "Everything is DONE! Chips are coming in on XX date, and then your stuff is going out!" until they are told "well something or other happened so it'll actually be a lot longer then we said."
If there were a clearer picture into the design window, reasonable estimates of failure, where companies were at in the process, people might not feel so in the dark, and feel so "betrayed" by missed deadlines and whatnot. Don't get me wrong, I always expect the masses to get all bothered by not getting their candy right when they want it, but it'd be a lot less dramatic. If you don't like a billion threads about the same thing, I would certainly see you being in favor of that.
