It is not a ploy. They have had them working at several of the shows they attended. I believe them when they said there were some improvements they wanted to make before coming out with them instead of bringing them out and then coming out with a version 2 that is better. That would also make people that bought the first one upset and it would why didn't they just wait and come out with the improved one to begin with. Once they do make the changed they need time to make enough of them for the initial release sales also. I don't think we will hear anything until they are ready to ship to their dealers.
Maybe but when Steve Jobs first showed the Mac, it didn’t work properly and his engineering team had to rush to fix it and he was simply lucky it didn’t fail during the presentation. So just because they have it work during shows, it doesn’t mean it’s ready for prime time and could still need a lot of work.
Also they would have been aware of this before they announce the release date. I have no idea when it will be available, months?, years? Do I need to buy a mastertronic before it comes out? I would have just gone with another apex and trident if I knew it was going to take so long. Frankly any marketing department is going to say they are “making improvement” when they miss the deadline. Aka just making it work consistently and accurately for a long time without need for service
As time has progressed, it is more acceptable for businesses to launch now and fix things later to get ahead of the market. Sometimes it backfires and sometimes it doesn't.
Omg, did we just become besties?! Same same, love kingkiller chronicles! Been waiting 5 yrs for book three.
The absurdity is that they promised a release date during the holidays when controllers were 10-20% off. Hydros does not have (an available auto tester) and they promised by Black Friday. That didn’t happen, I work in corporate and I understand how this works. No doubt they hoped it be ready, BUT they didn’t actually know and yet promised. It was a classic marketing ploy to say it’s late because they are adding new features. It’s much more likely that they rushed the release date and they knew there were issues. It’s poor business practice.
I see what you’re saying but you’re talking about at 20-30 dollar book with no peripherals. I chose the Hydros over the Apex due to the Maven. They did not meet their promise. I can’t say for sure but it’s not unlikely leadership pushed a date because of holiday sales and the engineers were like “it’s not gonna happen”. I’ve seen it happen over and over, in multiple industries.
They didn't promise the date. If I remember correctly they said they hoped to have it ready by that date. I will continue to test the way I am unit it becomes available. I do have auto alkalinity testing already using the iV.
I don't see where they ever promised anything. If push comes to shove, they may have indicated by black Friday was a target... or one of their partners let it slip and they couldn't put the genie back in the bottle... who knows.
Getting into semantics here. The point is, it’s very likely they made this statement to cash in on Black Friday sales. They still haven’t told customers when it’d be available. A good engineer doesn’t promise a product that’s not ready for prime time. That’s marketing.
As a new Hydros owner, I appreciate the delay when they knowingly could have just released a version 2 with improvements, but a business cannot possibly please everyone.
How? There was only one place for the pre-order and I think that was even taken down for some time... and there was no sale...
They said a few months - putting it first quarter likely of this year.
