If they were to match their competitors, like say KNC, they'd have to match 2 TH/s since KNC sent out an additional 3 TH/s for compensation(frankenjup issues aside).
This is exactly what they're trying to emulate. Not sure what you read this as.
No, when they first came out saying what they were doing in september, they had THE best prices you could find for hardware. Even though they were predicting Feb del, If they delivered then, it would have been still pretty awesome, but i don't think anyone saw bitmain coming out. I know if i had, i would have just saved my money for them.
That promise to me means that they were to keep that same type of edge on their competition. If The going rate for one ant miner that hashes at 200ghs (lets use nice numbers for arguments sake, and they are def capable of doing 200 no issues) is 200 dollars, that is a dollar a gh/s. At 279+ dollars for 100 gh/s from black arrow, clearly the antminer is the better deal. To me black arrow means that they will either drop th price down to 99 dollars for each x-1 to stay competitive, yeah right, or give the people who ordered either cloud hashing or equipment that does the same thing.
The price thing has nothing to do with KNC doing what they did with compensation.
When they say match they mean match what ever is FOR SALE from the competitors.
If you are really having issues with this, good luck with the rest of your life man

My life is just fine man.
If you don't think them scrapping the hosting for sending actual mining equipment isn't a reaction to what KNC is doing, then you have blinders man.
Competitor = KNC
They can't compete with Bitmain, they're already beat by them. Over 20% of the mining equipment out there.
X-1 is a dud, Ant S1's got them beat every which way, especially undervolted.
They can only compete with the the over 2 TH/s crowd, so that leaves KNC. KNC scrapped plan B hosting and sent Frankenjup's.
Black Arrow scrapped hosting and are sending equipment instead.
Reading comprehension, sometimes it's a good quality to have.