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An excellent post, gerbick. I agree completely. Except for this bit:

Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
It leads to "discussions" like this when the customer has gotten so fed up and now feel entitled to ultimatums. Sorry, you say that it's not, you're promising scorched earth if you don't get your tablet. That's an ultimatum in any language or sentiment.
The way I read it, mikecomputing was not threatening or promising Jolla anything. He was predicting what would happen. Hence the term "ultimatum" is not appropriate.