Insider trading covers the trading of stock by individuals with potential access to non-public information about the company. Electrical goods do count as stock surely!? Maybe I'm wrong, it's not important really. ....anyway, I have no will whatsoever to pursue anything. I have great respect for Cliff & wish Fractal nothing but success, you're taking the post out of context. My point is that ethically a fine line is being walked here & poo-hooing newer users who are disappointed that our relatively new units are not going to be allowed access to future content isn't very fair.
Stock has two meanings.
In the context of insider trading it means 'capital stock' which does not exist in the physical world.
Stock could also mean 'items we have in our warehouse', but this has no relevance to the concept of insider trading.
Fractal aren't a publicly listed company I don't think.
Listen, I'm in the same boat as everyone.
I spent a lot of money on my Ultra, but it allowed me to work in a more portable and self contained way so what the hell, if it devalues over the next year or so when fine, I would rather it didn't but bitching about it is pointless.
Two things to consider:
First is, I don't know about you but I had a room full of amps before I got the Ultra.
I sold all of them bar one and ended up with a pile of money that I put into guitars.
From that perspective it saved me money.
The other thing is look at it as a rental.
Say you lose $1000 over the next year in depreciation (because you don't need to update right away unless you are the type that HAS to have the latest thing out, at all costs)
If you lose $1000 over a year then 1000/12 then you have lost $83 a month.
You lose more on a car and probably a large percentage of people here spend more than that on alcohol, junk food, cocaine, transexual hookers or whatever.
Maybe Fractal will volunteer up a buy back scheme, like Apple sometimes does for people who bought the ultra in the last month (doubtful, but lets say they do).
You can bet your transexual-hooker-lovin-ass that all the guys who bought it 2 months before that cut off date will be just as butt-hurt as certain individuals are coming off as now.
Anyway... back to it.