Can people please stop comparing BFL to every other company. Being better than the worst is not a measure worth using.
It's like someone running you over in a car and then telling you that you're lucky, you could have been shot.
BFL was perceived as the market leader even in light of Avalon coming online. Its called a "control group"
I could have done the same thing by quoting Avalon for their 3 month delay on batch 3 units and/or the whole batch chip distribution debacle. But why would I do that...I'd rather focus on the big company that put in a ton of money into advertising and banners EVERYWHERE...and fucked everyone royally (I had my mercury money towards a bfl single for a couple months before hand, mind you)
Would you suggest a better "control group"?
bitfury is a chip mfg with their own subsidiary turnkey distribution channels bfstrikesback/megabigpower
Asicminer? Please. Those guys charged 10X the market value of their devices hand and fist - the only folks I saw buying up those units were the ones who were wary of BFL, missed out on Avalon Batch one, and had prior infrastructure in the form of GPU farms that they wanted to upgrade for power efficiency reasons.
so please friend....name a better control group for us to all compare KNC would you?