> SparkFun are going to make it right and will be shipping a replacement Microview for every defective unit that was shipped.
It sounds like Sparkfun is footing the bill for replacement anyways so it's much easier to just let them go through with that rather than setting up the equipment to quickly burn the bootloader into all the defective units. Setting up that equipment wouldn't be trivial either, if they're dealing with the full ~2k defective units they'd need something more durable than the breadboard setup the article showed. It's a lot of effort and another point of failure since they'd really need to test the units again after this process incase there were any issues with their repair process/equipment.
It sounds like Sparkfun is footing the bill for replacement anyways so it's much easier to just let them go through with that rather than setting up the equipment to quickly burn the bootloader into all the defective units. Setting up that equipment wouldn't be trivial either, if they're dealing with the full ~2k defective units they'd need something more durable than the breadboard setup the article showed. It's a lot of effort and another point of failure since they'd really need to test the units again after this process incase there were any issues with their repair process/equipment.