To mghamberlin.
I don't know what your deal is but you seem to mislead.
Obviously you seem to not grasp the relationship between product design and development. Under your twisted view if a manufacturer were to produce a line of (cars, phones, tv's) and the company who employeed them to do it was slow out of the gate. Then the manufacturer would just sell the phones to any company that came along. So maybe someday we will see civics and accords being sold by Ford because Honda could not move fast enough. Or maybe they will just scratch off that panasonic label the dvd player and put RCA. Hop-on has developed a product with a "manufacturer". O and by the way manufacturers don't go ahead and produce thousands of product without payment. That would be pretty stupid. Something simular to your recent postings.