Zack wrote:I would accept that answer if it wasn't for two things. One (and this is the big one) you released a beta of the Android App. Second if beta's are really that bad why do so many software makers release them?
You claim it would look bad if you where to release a version with bugs because most people wouldn't realize it's a beta...possible, but you seem to think promising us an App by the end of the year and hear it is mid February and you still nothing makes you look good?
At what point does you failing to follow through with what you say make you look as bad as an app with a couple of glitches might? The reason I ask is because it seems like until you reach that point we are never going to see a Slacker App for Windows Mobile.
We released an application for Android that was pretty much a release candidate, but might have had some bugs. Our marketing team decided to use Beta originally, but the difference on where that application was, and this version of the winmo application were light years apart. So, yes, we might tag something beta, but we still expected it to give a good first impression. This application on winmo wouldn't have met our expectations, even for the level of "beta" we used before. This version of the application would have been more of an early alpha if we were to have labeled it anything at all.
We announced that we were working on the application, yes, and we did expect it to be out by the end of last year based on things that we knew then. Things changed after that, and it affected us, and we missed that deadline. Since then, we haven't announced a release date because, well, to be honest we didn't want to have another similar situation as we did with the last release date estimate that we gave.
I understand that you want the application. I understand that based on the feedback of you and others that there is a good percentage fo Winmo users that would like it right now. I guess we could continue to go back and forth like this, but the answer isn't going to change. When it's ready, and we have determined that it meets our standard for being released, then we will release it. I don't know how many other ways to say that. So,I'll just keep saying it. It'll be released when it's ready.
I do want to thank you for your interest, and I'm glad that you did like what you saw. We are excited that we'll be able to put out something that seems to be wanted and liked by the community. You just need to give us the needed time to finish it and release it in the proper way, not by having it released due to someone leaking out a ROM that shouldn't have been out there.
Best regards,
Rome E
Slacker Support
