Last September the Arduino blog stated that the 32-bit Due (beta version) would be released in December of 2011. Did the Arduino team in fact miss a critical milestone, or was the release date in that blog misspelled and they meant December of 2012 or 2013? Or perhaps the project was abandoned altogether? Whatever the issue, I think the user community, students, inventors, tinkerers, makers, distributors and vendors, in all countries here and abroad, deserve an explanation from Arduino. Delays are commonplace and excusable, especially when dealing with radical departures, like 8-bit to 32-bit ARM processors. But what is more radical is for Arduino to keep the whole world in the dark. Quid accidit?