[mxavier]

He missed an opportunity to make another point here. Surely it isn't easy for a large company to behave like a small one or that they move slowly. However, being a large, seasoned company with all kinds of bureaucracy should at least buy you the ability to set realistic deadlines and meet them. Announcing a critical update to your platform and then failing to deliver it four months late is a small-company mistake, and mistake is being really generous.

[contextfree]

They tried to set a realistic deadline - they internally estimated they'd have it out in January, but were usually careful to pad that out to "early 2011" or "in the coming months" in public. Unfortunately they slipped a couple times.