I can see this both ways but I think the trend of rushing products to market, letting the public test them and then issuing a firmware update is a concern to me. The other way to look at it is at least the companies put out a fix. But in the past we didn't have to worry about a product coming out half built. We got defects sure and hopefully they were covered under warranty or you got an exchange, but not an unfinished product for us to buy while they finish designing it. The best current example is both HD disc formats. It seems to me that the consumer electronics industry takes the public for granted at will and gets away with it. Are we that anxious to throw our money at them that we let bad practices go unchecked?

The firmware issue is just another bad practice in my book of a list. I don't want to go into the list as not to detour from my original question.