I can't recall mentioning anything about any other hardware manufacturer. The discussion which is current, is regarding the use of further crowd-funding to enable AM to pay dividends on past crowd-funded endeavours.
Please explain to me how a customer of A.M. choosing to fund raise in this way in any way reflects negatively on A.M.? Are you inferring that there isn't enough demand without this IPO for A.M. to sell out Gen 3? On what information are you basing this assertion?
If I produced and sold peppermint sticks, and a schoolyard bully stole someone's lunch money to buy said peppermint sticks, that would in no way reflect poorly on my product or business practices. Nor would it mean that I wouldn't be able to sell my peppermint sticks without schoolyard bullying.
If you are going to keep up with the proper FUD throwers around here, you really need to work a bit harder at it.