Please keep in mind that I'm not saying there's a conspiracy - I'm saying that we don't know enough to judge Davis' reasons.
Do you have information that the new (green dot) console hardware - Vue and VP2 - is not actually "backwards compatible" (whatever that means in this context)?
That's my understanding, at least in the sense that you cannot downgrade green-dot consoles with prior version F/W. But you'd have to be very close to the engineers at Davis (which I'm not - there are some cut-outs to Engineering) to know for sure.
We're talking hardware. How do you know that
you cannot downgrade green-dot consoles with prior version F/W? Yes, if you try to apply the 1.x or 2.x firmware "update" it will not "update" because the console already has 3.x - that is a rather standard feature of update programs. It does not mean (either way) that 1.9 firmware would not run on a new console, if you could somehow load it.
I really do think this is more cock-up than conspiracy (don't know how that translates into American but maybe you'll get the gist). Someone probably was expected to update a web page but for whatever reason it hasn't happened or maybe there'll be something in the next enewsletter (which must be due I would have thought). So my view FWIW is that it's a human or organisational or timing glitch and not deliberate policy.
I agree - or perhaps, after making the hardware changes and writing the associated firmware, they can't decide on a good way to explain it.
Again, I'm not yelling conspiracy. If it turns out (next year) that the new console hardware (or for that matter the new logger hardware) is necessary to introduce some new, nifty, valuable feature, then we will be able to see why Davis did this.
If nothing new ever happens, then we may conclude that it was an "excuse" to try to defeat 3rd-party loggers.
Or perhaps some other reason. We just can't draw logical conclusions now. But we can observe the current "mess".