To the user it is just one product with one price, not a hardware product and a software product. I agree that new products should work as advertised and not need an initial upgrade. At every, of the many, delays in the roll out of the Vector, Garmin repeated that they wanted to get it right the first time. It is the way things are with all new products however and why I only rarely pay to test products by being an early adopter.

Wife feels differently and stayed up late to get on the Apple web site and get one of the new iPhones. It has had an system update already. I suppose products may be a little cheaper this way with all the volunteer testing so I guess I like the early adopters.