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Microsoft continues to long pre-announce their products - the first US widgets are November? - which implies they're going to continue to under-deliver on their
by Hoff 16y ago
Microsoft continues to long pre-announce their products - the first US widgets are November? - which implies they're going to continue to under-deliver on their execution, to detract from the work of all the bright people over there, to follow the everything-is-named-Windows branding, and to generally disappoint their customers.
This RTM on the same day where Jobs announced two iOS releases within the same range when WP7 products are expected.
And what else Apple and Android or HP (with WebOS) might or will deploy before the Microsoft partners ship products built from this Microsoft RTM announcement?
Time to start managing their customer expectations down, as is their inexplicable wont?
- kenjackson 16y agoI think in this case they had a tough call to make, and I think they made the right one. They either keep it under wraps, and not get dev tools and SDK coverage. Or they announce early and launch with a relatively strong ecosystem out the gate. I think they've built up a decent amount of anticipation for their devices. And on the dev side I only know slightly more iOS devs than WP7 devs right now (and far more than Android devs). That's kind of crazy since there are 120M iOS devices and no WP7 devices shipped. I wouldn't be surprised if others were seeing a similar phenomena. And remember MS kept Kin underwraps until a month before shipping, and you see how well that went. :-)