As far as how these delays will affect the company, to paraphrase speculation prior to your posts, wherein it will end the company if one particular person doesn't get their tablet before a certain holiday would mean that the company in question will close up, never get any other investors and thus are a bunch of soon to be out of work engineers. Yeah, opinion based.

The delays are not intentional. I truly believe so - that's my opinion. Does it damage the layman, who mostly do not know who/what Jolla is outside of this forum or the IndieGoGo campaign. I think not.

The problems come whenever you alter a reference design and have to source those changes. It happens. It just happens that these changes and delays are out in the open whereas most other companies mask these delays with other product releases.

So yeah... opinion based. The rest is just a puerile reaction to an unfortunate truth.