[Koying]

The vero was supposed to be my way out from under the support rock! I know better than most the tech industry culture of today is to ship products in a beta/alpha stage so teething issues on the vero while disappointing are not unexpected at all. Trying to cover them up is completely unacceptable and something I refuse to support.

Yeah, that basically confirm my earlier concerns about the Vero not being sent for external review.
The Vero is currently beta, and early adopters are guinea pigs. This is to be expected, really, and I've no actual issue with that unless a selling point and a justification for the over-pricing is that it should be hassle-free.
IMHO, an honest way to handle this would have been to give a huge discount to pre-orders, like selling at cost (~$100).

Thank fritsh for helping Sam to backport the improved rendering path, or it would have been worse...