Sounds like spin to me... promise one thing and when you fail to deliver, dangle a bigger carrot.
Or a dog biscuit.
Seriously, once the code does eventually drop so that the machine comes close to representing what was actually claimed in the original sales brochure, no doubt this will all be forgotten about and Stern can begin gearing up to rinse and repeat loyal customers for the next Stern machine in the "life cycle".
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