Regardless of that (which I haven't experienced, at the very least because I only got a Pi when they started selling the Rev 2), any platform has its issues at

Regardless of that (which I haven't experienced, at the very least because I only got a Pi when they started selling the Rev 2), any platform has its issues at first. The important part is that they recognize them and fix them. People can choose not to buy if the outstanding issues are important to them, but they seem to have chosen to buy en-masse instead... Unless you are referring to those issues being, in part, from the non-open nature of some parts of the Pi. If that's so, I only have to point to every other platform where there's a ROM with non-open firmware. Being that on the Pi all firmware is loaded on startup, and on other platforms the firmware is there and all that the OS can do is work around it's bugs...