Maybe they had the boards, then during testing they found that they were unstable.
+1. It's funny how many people forget what testing means...
Except that it was said that batch one was being tested. Batch one meaning the collective amount of the entire order.
The board was being tested long before this.
http://ow.ly/i/3Xrbt*A* board was being tested; not necessarily their production board. Not going to make any claims about their schedule or whatever, but you usually test something to look for problems. I guess we'll see what they do.