I dont think its a scam. David is right that iota has been started to test in beta, although in a very early phase still, and most of that has been done on Ryver. And time has been well used meanwhile.
But its true that its stupid to claim there has been no delay at all or everything has been delivered, and keep making statements like:
Trust me, the price will *not* suffer. Pay attention to the news that will be released in the coming week and you'll see why;) We'll launch the official blog and forum of IOTA in the coming week with a lot of interesting news, so don't worry about price or development taking a blow.
that again have been missed. Why not just dont say anything and deliver when the right time comes? These comments only raise expectations and then tilt and make people lose hope in the project.
Even responding to the troll DecentralizedEconomics is a waste of time, he was banned from nxtforum for death threats and had threads removed here for trolling before. So /ignored
Now rdanneskjoldr: GUI is the ONLY thing that has been delayed, which we have been completely open about, we have revealed which company we hired and why they failed to deliver. There has been absolutely no ambiguity or obfuscation of reality here. We have been 100% open and transparent all the way. Maybe this is why IOTA is already selling at 10-15x original price, yet you are complaining? We never even promised 1x and already delivered 15x before official beta launch and revelation of exciting news, yet you complain.
Are you participating in the testing? Weird if you bought software, yet aren't interested in testing it. What have you done for the ecosystem? Only in crypto do people buy software and EXPECT, no actually DEMAND a magic 100x is somehow 'owed' to them. Crypto-greed is hilarious.
On topic:
No IOTA is not a scam, IOTA was sold legally as software, plain and simple. IOTA has partnered with different IoT groups and is being adopted into more and more projects. It will go into full beta soon and subsequent release.