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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 430165" data-attributes="member: 16749">I don't consider it reasonable to expect that all bugs in a product will be found before it is brought to market and put into the hands of consumers, or that a manufacturer might, after that point, realize that there is some new feature they could have added in firmware that they didn't think of until after that point.&nbsp; I expect that firmware updates are going to happen.&nbsp; But what the OP is asking for would require manufacturers—either intentionally or as a result of sloppiness and laziness—to be selling a substandard product to consumers, only to fix it later.&nbsp; There may even be a place for that; consumers, in exchange for serving as beta testers, could be sold the product as a considerably discounted price, compared to what the finished product is expected to sell for.&nbsp; But I think that a customer who isn't given such a discount, on that basis, has every reason and right to expect that he is buying a finished product, which the manufacturer has taken every reasonable measure to assure is as complete and bug-free as they can make it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 430165, member: 16749"] I don't consider it reasonable to expect that all bugs in a product will be found before it is brought to market and put into the hands of consumers, or that a manufacturer might, after that point, realize that there is some new feature they could have added in firmware that they didn't think of until after that point. I expect that firmware updates are going to happen. But what the OP is asking for would require manufacturers—either intentionally or as a result of sloppiness and laziness—to be selling a substandard product to consumers, only to fix it later. There may even be a place for that; consumers, in exchange for serving as beta testers, could be sold the product as a considerably discounted price, compared to what the finished product is expected to sell for. But I think that a customer who isn't given such a discount, on that basis, has every reason and right to expect that he is buying a finished product, which the manufacturer has taken every reasonable measure to assure is as complete and bug-free as they can make it. [/QUOTE]

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