A partner company cannot have frontline employees officially commenting on an upcoming release that greatly affects both it and the partner. Therefore, the training memos could not have gone out until Thursday or even Friday last week. And not every frontline employee worked late last week.
Moreover, I wonder how much these Google Play sales really mean to Sprint. How many Nexus 5s will be sold through Google Play these first few weeks? And what percentage of those will be headed to Sprint? My guess is possibly 300,000, and of those sales, only a minority make their way to Sprint. Likely, most will end up on T-Mobile, followed by AT&T, then Sprint a distant third.
That said, what we have seen, anecdotally, is better preparedness from Sprint as the days have gone by. So, do not overlook that. But anything prior to the Spark launch this Friday could be construed as premature ejaculation -- or should I call it just icing on the cake.
AJ