I believe BFL will ship. Albeit 7 moths late and way off on their power/speed estimates, but they will ship.
My biggest grievance is that they are liars and continue to lie to their customers that funded their R&D.
Their biggest concern from day 1 has been to keep the preorder money flowing into their bank account.
The problem is: What is your definition of ship? Because technically they shipped a unit to Luke. Will they ship all of the orders full blown, or will they ship a few every month lol.
No, they did not "technically ship a unit to Luke." That was a BS April fools, smoke and mirrors, get out of losing all the BTC we made on our bet kind of deal.
By shipping I mean shipping their product to every customer that still has a pre-order, I actually believe they will do this.
But, of course they will be slow with shipping and not ship anywhere close to the numbers they were suggesting (400/day)... it's BFL.... It took them like 6 months+ to ship all their FPGA preorders. I'm pretty sure they have more ASIC preorders than they did FPGAs because they've been advertising like crazy since day 1. So... I'd say AT LEAST 6 months for them to make it out of their preorder backlog, probably more like 9 though.