this is getting annoying. Idk wth is wrong with these guys. If anything, it looks bad.
Leaked doc, leaked this and that, and then pull the info once the ETA arrives. It stupid and i hope they realize how bad they look. regardless how great the Moto Droid is, its mad annoying when they do this. This is the 2nd time they did it, if not the 3rd.
I think what everyone is missing is the fact that the update is ready to, and was ready last Thursday, and was held up to due to Bitfone's capacity issues. I have not seen anything that refutes that yet. CK posted an article in the other 2.1 forum that stated that Bitfone was hiring a 3rd party consultant to advise them on how to fix the capacity issue..... If that is the case, then we are looking at a couple of weeks minimum until this gets sent out (unless it does happen this week, then, I will be very surprised). If the distributor is having to call in a consultant to help them plan a "redesign" of their distribution infrastructure, that indicates to me that something went horribly wrong over at Bitfone on Thursday....
I can imagine that it was a long weekend for some people at Bitfone, Motorola, and VZW. I am sure there are quite a few people at all three companies under a lot of pressure to make this perform right. One has asked the question "Why doesn't Motorola find an alternative way of getting this to us." That might take more time than having to wait for Bitfone to complete their work. Whether they post the update.zip online for users to download. (Bad idea, would be more problems than it would be worth) or contract another company to distribute it, doing that takes time, probably more time than they want. We can't see it, but internally, I am sure Moto, VZW and Bitfone are reacting to this mess... Bitfone, because it screwed up, the other two companies because this is costing them reputation, which in the short and long term, is going to cost them money. To think that VZW and Moto are sitting around toying with us, and acting as if they don't care, is the wrong assessment. VZW and Moto have large investments in this product, and it's performance, and keeping current users happy, and getting more Droid customers into the fold. It is not something that is being taken lightly in the corporate offices of both companies. Rest assured, someone out there at all three companies is having a bad Monday because of this, and I will bet that the principle players are scrambling around for a solution right now.
That's how business works...especially when there are hundreds of millions of dollars involved. The problem will be fixed and we will get our update, and there will probably be a press release or two to read when it does come out, about how the last Thursday got messed up. Both companies are going to have to do some "damage control" if you will over this, and they will, in one form or another. I am thinking that we might hear something later in the week... who knows....
