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Steve Martin comes off as oddly defensive when announcing these changes I’ve yet to meet a developer who travels just to hear about pricing updates, so you
by dantiberian 13y ago
Steve Martin comes off as oddly defensive when announcing these changes
I’ve yet to meet a developer who travels just to hear about pricing updates,
so you won’t see us take the stage at Build and use the opening moment
to announce a price cut. This isn’t retail; innovation matters.
I’ll cover pricing right here, right now.
I'm not sure what purpose it serves except for making a stab at Amazon and Google.
- outside1234 13y agoI think he makes a valid point, why waste keynote time on prices? I'd much rather hear about the innovation.
- dantiberian 13y agoIt's a valid point but phrased oddly. He could have said something like: "We have so much amazing stuff to tell you at Build that we won't have time to cover price drops on Azure. Effective May 1 ..."
- asharpe 13y agoThat's a very cynical position to take. For once, here is a large market player focussing on providing delivering value via the product and not wasting time on pricing. In many cases, even with these price reductions (and their claim to match AWS/GCE), pricing is not the driver for hosting adoption - rather features, ease of use, performance etc. It is refreshing to see one of the big boys elevate this. It does set a high benchmark for what they are presenting: saying they have big innovation to announce ... and then not deliver ...
- Shebanator 13y agoWhat he means is: "we weren't expecting the Google and Amazon price cuts, so we aren't going to change our carefully planned keynote to announce this."