The office chair thing makes it something people talk about which creates a myth in the employee culture about the crazy things the company does to save money. This myth is retold to other team members so everyone gets that the company cares about frugality. You probably wouldn't want to work with me and that's kinda the point of culture.
Updates for reasoning behind all of our decisions was made public, we fulfilled perks to our backers, and have been continuously upgrading devices plus apps based on user feedback. It's called a start up and yes, things change.
As to your account and that you only choose to comment only here and have no other submissions, it leads me to question who you are and if you actually are an indiegogo backer. If you are, if you shoot a mail to support at phonehalo.com, they respond within 24 hours and have resolved 99% of all issues.
We also were the first to show the 4.0 technology last January at CES: http://ces.cnet.com/8301-33369_1-57354528/bluetooth-4.0-powered-cobra-tag-g5-needs-only-biannual-recharges/