As an owner of the 3MH/10-miner set I would agree with your assessment 100%. I will not be buying anymore of these devices until the new firmware is released and it has been clearly and factually demonstrated as being stable and usable.
Thank you. Now I won't have to worry about ASICs making my GPU's worthless over the next few months.
At the prices these are currently selling for we should not be getting "beta" hardware/software.
On what basis are you saying that the price is not worth "beta" hardware/software? From what I can see, prices are competitive on a per hash basis vs. GPU mining. You are basically trading off stability of GPU's for the lower power of the ASIC. When the ASICs become stable, their "stable" price will initially be higher on a per hash basis than GPU. Only when they can supply all the demand will the per hash price drop below GPU costs.
To make matters worse the firmware is all closed-source, so all the really smart guys on this forum can't even help out to fix these problems. This is perhaps the most disappointing because the community is READY and BEGGING to help out and improve the software, but can't because of closed-source. This is a real shame in my opinion...
Just because you don't have a hack doesn't mean it is closed-source. Enough code is posted for you to write your own mining program, or even a Linux version. Have at it, and please post it when you are done. The problem is, getting someone with the know how to do the hacks.
At this point, the ASICs are unstable, but despite that, they still average 350 khs per miner for me. That includes the off-line time of the reboots. So, 2 miners have the hashing power of a R9 280x. I can set up a room full of Asics. Due to power limitations, I can't do the same with R9 280x's.