You spin Waytools more than the Mac Rumors fluff stories did. Honestly, you work for them or with them, right?
What did I spin? And I've given all anyone needs to know about me and WT - I'm was a customer, just like all the others who complain. I was chosen as a tester, just as some other customers were. As a tester, I do my very best to find problems - even possible solutions - and inform WT and, as one of the few people who can give information outside of WT itself, I do my best to provide my experiences to others.
BTW, MR very clearly provided the information on delays both near the beginning and near the end of their last article - that is, the two places there it would carry the most weight. That's not what fluff pieces do.
[doublepost=1474325167][/doublepost]BTW, for all the talk about butterfly changes being made in February, I don't see anything really clear about then they actually decided the new ones were better and thus they were definitely going to make the change back then. Yes, they did produce some new ones, but producing something doesn't mean you decide to go with it. You evaluate the pros and cons and much of that can't be done until you have production samples.
For example, before WT decided to redo the PCB boards, they were testing the multiple sample lots (thousands in each lot) to see if any of the lots were unaffected by the problems some encountered. Obviously there were some changed made for each lot - because if there was no change, there would be no logic to separating them by lots to begin with! May have been different assembly approaches. May have been different groups of workers with some doing better than others.
Thing is, changes could have an effect and have to be checked. So this could be much the same. Old butterflies worked, they thought they found something better (which maybe they should have saved for version 2, but too late now), and so they created these - but still had to decide whether or not to actually make the change across the board.
And that may not have happened in February. Hard to tell because WT, even when they give a lot of information, often don't explain things clearly.
A good example of that, and an easier one to follow, is how they use "gating" when talking about things that determine whether something will ship. To me, and I suspect most people, a "gating issue" is ANYTHING that will block shipping until it is fixed. But WT description is different. Basically, if something will take 2 month (estimated) to fix, that's a gating issue. But if they also have other things they expect to have fixed in less than a month, they don't include them in any description of gating issues since they don't expect them to actually block release.
I don't think that is a good way of doing it, but it does show how you have to be careful in how you interpret what WT says.
