Plus, this helps keep people like Hugo employed, leading to fun and new toys for us tech geeks to lust over
...also very much the reason I tend to support stuff I think is promising. eg, we have a Prius even though we don't drive enough to make it at all financially beneficial; the chances are one of the subsequent owners *will*, and it's a vote of support towards the people developing these things.
If everyone just said "meh" towards the early versions of products because they weren't quite "there" yet, there wouldn't be followups...
I do hope I can count on your support for my current project