Netgear falling behind?

I guess that is my point the industry is moving faster and NetGear does not seem to be keeping pace. Hard drives are coming out faster and there are more models in each capacity. Seems like the investment just isn't there to keep up. From looking around other manufacturers have current up to date HCLs that have drives listed almost as fast as they are released. While you can probably find a drive in a particular capacity for a ReadyNAS you are likely to pay a steep premium to get that particular model. At 6 drives you could end up paying $1-2K more just because of the limited HCL.

For the USB 3.0, two ports with external 3TB drives you can backup 50% of your capacity pretty quickly. There are also lots of uses for moving a large percentage of your capacity to external disk quickly.

Maybe I didn't ask the question as well as I should have. Given my perception that NetGear is falling behind, what edge does NetGear have over the up and coming competitors in the market that I'm not seeing? Mostly I'm finding higher spec'd models with larger HCLs at similar price points. Is there something above an beyond like reliability, software features, etc... that I'm not giving NetGear a fair shake?