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Having the devices get a firmware update when the user sets it up speeds up the process. It allows them to manufacture the devices without having to wait until the final firmware update is ready, which gets it in our hands faster. It would be terribly slow if they had to get the firmware update ready, and then program them all.
I have to imagine that Amazon's servers are getting slammed with firmware updates now, so the sticks will get it first, then it will be available to the boxes. I got my box in June, had I known the stick was coming out, I would have waited. But I think I will keep the box. I am tempted to keep the stick, it would be a good as a portable player, but I really don't travel all that much.
I still have my old first-generation Roku box. It works - more or less - but has been getting flaky. I may deregister it and donate it.
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