I have to wonder why they went to the trouble of photoshopping the background out of the image.
I've pretty much lost what little faith I had in the eventual release of this product. All of their excuses for the delays and now their silence makes it seem like they are hiding something (like they don't have the money to actually do a production run and are hoping some investor will come and save them). It would be much easier to be understanding about the situation if they would just be honest about it.