I like the plug and play thing with the Antminers but maybe having also having a uart port on the blades would not be much of a difference for Bitmain to implement. However that would kind of, reduce our dependence level on them and they might not like that since they are pretty greedy/pragmatic in their business plan.
Sad but true !!!! . lmao they will find out later down the road that disregurading the home user is bad most big company do sooner or later . unless there intention from the start was like KNC, i still feel they planed things how they went from the start,they just needed capitol to get going then it was ksdn;lk the rest and KNc even wanted to control the bitcoin network and tried to at one point . all most lost it all tiring, so , it seems no one company can or will be able to, ever.
I hate greed and what it does to everyone that much, if we shared more we would get more and get along better.
I'm getting off topic don't get me going on that subject. I'm stopping. sorry !!!.
but yea Bitmain can if Avalon does and sell kits if we want them and make more + save, and the kits are plug and play or give us the kits with the miner sense they come with the miner now installed or let us use our own images and not there standard openwrt UI's or let us update openwrt to hold thu a reboot like we can with S3 and S1 .
They prove they can now by selling there own Custom PSU , I'll bet them doing that in S2 sourcing out for PSU's was a costly mistake and nitemare by the way they expressed " it won't happen again " and they are just being hard headed about the controller thing at this point, like you said and won't admit it .( tiring to avoid the word greed ).
I guess , I like having the freedom to pick etc.
I'm sure Bitmain run some numbers to see a so called cost but numbers are just that numbers and most of the time are wrong or only fit one group of users.