[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by doogald

At the risk of being pedantic, what he said is quite right - the version of WM available in 2009 is still series 6. He did not say that it was being released in 2009; he said that it was available in 2009.

OK, then it's a "who cares" statement. It's like the old trick question -- "Which month has 28 days?" (All of them!)

Originally Posted by doogald

You can hardly blame him. The company is struggling, WM is not expecting an exciting new update for a while, and Android is being actively developed. When your company faces financial troubles, you sometimes choose to take risks, and betting on Android could be a better bet for Motorola this year than trying to compete with new WM devices.

I don't think anybody is blaming him for developing Android phones. We're criticizing him for leaking information that is probably considered proprietary by Microsoft (typically release dates would be covered by NDAs, I think).

For example, he could have said basically the same thing like this: "In 2009, we think Android is more capable than Windows Mobile, so we'll be focusing more on developing new Android phones this year. When Microsoft releases a great new version of Windows Mobile, we'll focus on developing for that, too." Notice how I didn't need to mention any dates for Windows Mobile (or mention a year five times in one run-on sentence -- 2009 three times and 2010 twice). It's not rocket science.

Steve

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by doogald

At the risk of being pedantic, what he said is quite right - the version of WM available in 2009 is still series 6. He did not say that it was being released in 2009; he said that it was available in 2009.

OK, then it's a "who cares" statement. It's like the old trick question -- "Which month has 28 days?" (All of them!)

Originally Posted by doogald

You can hardly blame him. The company is struggling, WM is not expecting an exciting new update for a while, and Android is being actively developed. When your company faces financial troubles, you sometimes choose to take risks, and betting on Android could be a better bet for Motorola this year than trying to compete with new WM devices.

I don't think anybody is blaming him for developing Android phones. We're criticizing him for leaking information that is probably considered proprietary by Microsoft (typically release dates would be covered by NDAs, I think).

For example, he could have said basically the same thing like this: "In 2009, we think Android is more capable than Windows Mobile, so we'll be focusing more on developing new Android phones this year. When Microsoft releases a great new version of Windows Mobile, we'll focus on developing for that, too." Notice how I didn't need to mention any dates for Windows Mobile (or mention a year five times in one run-on sentence -- 2009 three times and 2010 twice). It's not rocket science.

Steve