"It's just the way the cookie crumbles. Notwithstanding it was a very bloody expensive cookie for me."
"Within about a year or two of them being installed, some had started failing and had to be replaced."
"You could expect to get months out of them rather than years."
"They kept hoping they'd be able to fix it … as they scaled up the manufacturing, and that didn't work."
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