Quote Originally Posted by meanmoe View Post
to rob a word from Vapor, I vehemently disagree with you. Do you own one.
Yes.

Or better yet, do you have 3 of them sitting on the floor under your desk?
No. Working fine to this very day, ~8 months

The first and second of which came with no instructions.
Fair point.

Being a bit of a designer myself (but of slightly more complex systems ) I contend that the 'design' was poor... If there was a requirements tree for this thing it would say "hold water" at the very top, but they leaked and flying molds across the world and changing materials and changing fasteners and all the other applied bandaids didn't change that.
Fair enough, that's your opinion. All I'm trying to say is that the T3 was much, much more than just "Hey let's stick a D5 on the back of a reservoir with 2 inlets and 2 outlets". A lot of design and thinking went into it to make that concept work. I don't want people to forget that, even if the execution was lacking in most cases.

A design is more than a pretty cad model man.
Agreed. IMO, the problem lies in testing. The product was advertised well before launch, creating demand and I doubt any serious testing was done to make sure it worked properly over the long term - they just wanted to get it out there. But there was no way Geno could have known about the problems to come from his end. He did his job, and he did it well.