That's exactly the kind of capitalism that's wrong in this world. Sounds like Line6... not like Fractal Audio. iPhone 5 had no important update to the 4S which basically started negative talk about Apple. None of that BS happened when Steve Jobs was alive. I hope none of that BS will happen here either as long as Cliff Chase is alive.
Stronger faster DSP chips have come out since the IIs release.
Which ones?
Possibly Hewlett-Packard?
They were on the virge of coming out maybe over a year ago. 6 cores, IIRC.
I saw the manufacturers page myself.