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That one's tricky because of a lot of the copyright stuff mixed up in there. With Spotify/youtube, there's direct relationships in place with the music labels to enable a subset of it. Going beyond that - a lot of the legacy gatekeepers are going to freak out, just from the perception that "their" content is residing on someone's device at any point in time, and therefore far more monies should be paid to them for that "privilege".

Same here - I've never had terribly good luck with 3rd party stores. With the corporate stores, it's always good to remember you can call in to customer care and complain about them, pretty easy to get bill credit as well as provide feedback that ends up pushed down to the store itself. With 3rd parties, good luck on any escalation...

What should we have learned? As far as I'm concerned, Googlorola did as much as I could have wanted - Motorola phones got revitalized, UI elements became sane, and they took a giant leap forward at least in my mental market share model when it came to android phones.

Still waiting on the 800 MHz launch to start... the NV 1.0 otherwise seems largely complete, though I'd imagine tuning is still ongoing.

Thankfully, these are going to be sprint owned spaces, so fingers crossed, they should actually have working models. Though I'm guessing that'll be somewhat limited in the April 10 version of life - from working with those fixtures previously, they're close to impossible to secure so that phones don't just disappear.

Yeah, it's more around acquiring logos to use in sales slides and references - every company selling to others loves to be able to say "and look at all of these companies you want to be like, they use our product [x]". We call them Nascar slides most of the time.

It's actually neither of those things. Part of my job function is sales - new "logo" acquisition just means they're trying to acquire new customers in business to business sales. Looking at the job description, the role's being quota'd on them bringing in 25+ business accounts - or 25+ new companies to buy Sprint services, probably related to the new announcement about the Workplace as a service offering.

I'm curious how much interference there actually is. It sounds to me like Oakland was just grasping at straws with a "And it's his fault! Not ours. Never our fault!".

Last I heard around here, that was the original plan, and we all know how long those last... about until they encounter the real world. I think a lot are, but not all, due to all the delays.

Scalable? Yes. Instantly? No. Also, don't forget, to get B25 LTE live, some sites launched with missing or duct-taped backhaul due to delays from companies like C-Link.

Me either - though I'm just glad to see the acceptances starting at least. Long ways to go though.

And looks like 800's starting... 2 800 CDMA updates in market, one in the metro area.

Never under-estimate the complexities of enterprise systems and integrations, especially those between companies. I work for a living on a ton of enterprise wide architecture projects for companies, and it never ceases to amaze me how much baggage/oddities crop up in several of them. I'm guessing when Apple and Sprint integrated to begin with, unlocking was not something that was planned for at all, so this is them working together to scramble and put something in, along with modifying a host of systems to match. Much like any enterprise projects, seldom do things go fully to schedule or plan, so I'm sure they'll get there - just takes time, to reiterate the "patience" call in the thread.

Coverage has nothing* to do with speed. Merely that you can get a usable signal for LTE/Spark, which it appears you can. *Yes, it's a prerequisite, but says nothing about the backhaul, congestion, or 25 other factors that go into speed..

Yeah, about 8 years ago I worked for Radio Shack running a town's worth of stores. Even then, dealer stores were on their way out. Practically all metropolitan RS stores are company-owned, as a rule of thumb, only the more rural ones were dealer owned, where they had product needs outside the corporate set. (Dealer stores could sell other products beyond a "normal" RS, which caused all kinds of customer confusion, but that's another story)