I haven't seen what's happening with the other forums but I can see why Craig would be going a bit nuts. He had an idea which had the potential to be awesome. By now the Pandora should have sold the same 50,000+ units the GP2X achieved and we should be looking forward to the next generation.
It must be a very difficult pill to swallow, knowing that you came so close to excellence, but missed out because of 3rd party failings. I've been in a similar situation myself though in my case the concept was far from proven, however I had the belief and it was 3rd parties who let me down and finally I ran out of money.
Specs wise, the Pandora is far from cutting edge now. The wifi on my unit rarely connects to a network, and when it does it crawls. There's no built in SIM modem, so network use is pretty much out of the question. There is no multi tasking interface that is suited to the small screen. I've managed to hack one together but unfortunately most emulators dont support a 'windowed' mode, so I can't be playing Sonic while waiting for a contact to come on online. Most games and apps are straight desktop ports with scant regard for the screen size they're dealing with... Even with my glasses on having a conversation in pidgen is a strain. Media players with small buttons, web browsers with the standard built in file requestors which are far to big to be useful... the list goes on.
Then there's the fact that the device is just plain SLOW compared to what is out there these days. PSX emulation can't play ANY of the few Playstation games I like at a reasonable rate, even when overclosked. N64 Emulation is still glitchy and the Analogue nubs impossible to calibrate to any decent level of playability. And the Dreamcast emulator looks dead in the water.
So from being a device that I used pretty much every day, I tired of squinting at poorly designed UIs, and attempting to play games at slow speeds, and the Pandora was pretty much retired until my recent twelve hour flight. On this flight I used it to watch a couple of videos and play some sonic... something I previously would have been able to do quite happily with my Dingoo; and at a fraction of the cost. And I'd have been able to make use of the built in USB charging, something which all 3 of my Pandoras have previously been fussy about.
I've strayed off topic somewhat. Anyway I think every outburst Craig has is one more elucidation to the fact that the Pandora will never reach even close to it's potential.
That doesn't, however, explain why he acted like a jack**s even before the major problem occurred
