An update on the dock's product page highlights the numerous challenges the team has faced during development, which started by assuming their manufacturing partner – with plenty of experience making Bluetooth speakers – could easily design the electronic on their behalf. Had it worked, it would have saved Panic lots of time and money.

Things went smoothly at first, but the factory ended up outsourcing the Bluetooth chipset and software to another company in a different country. Unsurprisingly, quality suffered.