The recent responses to possible issues with the GTA02v5 is a perfect illustration of why many companies will not open their process. As Mikko and others have pointed out, THERE ARE NO PERFECT PRODUCTS. With a closed company, YOU simply don't know about "known" defects, future improvements, etc. So you happily buy their current products and they happily go on making the trade-off between the risk of negative publicity caused by discovery of their flaws and the profits they are making by keeping you ignorant of problems they don't want to fix.
If you want to hear the truth, you must be prepared for the fact that you might not like some of the things you hear. OM is doing a WONDERFUL job of keeping all of us informed and disclosing details that scare most other companies. The trade-off they are making is between the improvements that they want to make (a never-ending list) and the demand from the market (that's us) to get a useful product in our hands. The product currently under production is clearly useful--with or without LED current issues--and OM has decided that it's ready to go to market. We should all support their decision rather than complaining about small defects, known or yet-to-be-discovered. The product will always be improving. I'm ready to start using it NOW. As an example from another area, consider the books on your bookshelf. With each printing minor corrections are made. Does that mean you should not buy a "first edition, first printing" copy? How long should you wait? When will it be "perfect"?
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