If anything, people should learn to stay away from AsicMiners' stuff until they drop their prices, because they will do it.
All prices drop all the time. That laptop you purchased last year for $1500? Today you can get the same one for just $1000. It's how technology works!
Also...laptop can be useful for many years. Asics do only one thing and there's even backroom talk amongst the developer(s)/supporters to change the code to make it hard on Asics.