Ken,
I'm with you. Civil and without flaming.
My whole intent was this:
In another thread, a poster was hesitent to buy a spektrum because he felt like it may be sub par to companies like JR or futaba. He curently owns futaba and said that he wanted to go JR, so he would wait for another offering.
I offered my opinion, based upon several personal observations, and backed it up by lots of first hand knowledge that he should buy the spektrum if he is that comfortable with JR because they are the same radio. At that point, I began to get bombarded and the post went south in a hurray--to the point of hijacking.
So I wanted to start my own thread to debate this issue. No winners and no losers, just a good ol' debate.

Who cares? Well, that's a good question. We'll see who all contributes.
I agree with K3 as well--coorporate enterprises can be hard to figure out.

Let me make a statement that maybe all can agree with, but maybe not. Regardless of whether its a separate company or not--let's even say that it is for the sake of argument (although I still believe otherwise). If it is the same case, same software, same programming, then is it not the same radio? Is the reliability of it any different from JR?

I understand that it is new and relatively unproven technology. At first I was going to wait on it too, but I decided what the heck--I'd jump on board. It will be a long time--years--before my entire fleet is changed over. In fact, I will probably only fly one this entire summer--with the rx that came with it. This will give me a chance to put the rx into a plane and really check it out--without risking a whole lot of $$ on new rx's. In fact, it will end up costing me roughly 1000 dollars if the price doesn't come down on new rx--that is why it will be a slow process. In the meantime, however, I will sell my 72 rx and recoup some of that money, but probably only about 30%, if that.