[timothya]

They're giving full refunds to all their customers, so it's more like those customers got to use the device for "free" while it was available.

[nitrogen]

That is a different story. If only all vendors did the same.

[Godel_unicode]

No, that's literally exactly the story in question. What if this is the Google answer for hardware going forward? Buy what you're interested in before it's ready, give us signal about what's good/bad, and if we kill it we pay you back what it cost.

Isn't that what we as consumers want?