Jello: You just said it yourself in the posts you quoted: making the ROM is the hard part. They also said they won't release an unoptimized/unfinished verion. Thanks for supporting my point. Selectively ignoring facts, nice.
Oh, and my "old as shit device" got an upgrade to 2003. Not that age proves anything.
Clearly something happened during development out of the normal. How the hell much more do you want them to work on something free? I'm sure if it were up to you you'd have them working on it for months and months, taking time and resources away from other devices. It doesn't make sense. They didn't just abandoned it; they spent 1/4TH OF THE DEVELOPMENT TIME TRYING TO FIX THIS PROBLEM.
You people are being completly unreasonable here, plain and simple. Instead of directing your anger at a company that doesn't care for it's customers, you're directing it at one which far as we know ran into a legit problem. But you're all willing to burn them at the stake just as easily. And if they released a shoddy update, you'd all be here whining about that. They simply can't win.
It's not like your device magically will stop working now, or will work any less. You've all been fine with it up to now, but now you act like the damn thing is useless, and it's utterly retarded, simple. I've wanted an A716 for a while, and I still do, update be damned.
