Re: [Gamedevlists-brew] what's going on with VZW Get It Now for Samsung a670?

[Paul J. <pa...@ap...>]

Sounds fair to me tbh. I couldn't imagine doing this one at a time anyways.


Regards,
Paul Johnson.
www.applewoodhouse.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guido Henkel" <gh...@g3...>
To: <gam...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Gamedevlists-brew] what's going on with VZW Get It Now for 
Samsung a670?


>> don't deal directly with Verizon or any other carrier per se. However, my 
>> answer to the question "How many phones should we support ?" is "Well, 
>> how many are there ?"
>
> Well, let me put it to you this way. We currently have 43 certified 
> versions of "FlipIt!" for the North American market alone. That's how many 
> handsets there are...
>
> The reason they have instated this policy is manifold. One of the main 
> reasons I've been told is to lower the overhead required to test them all 
> internally. Verizon hates to spend money on data apps - they are supposed 
> to make money for them not the other way round - and they try every way 
> they can to minimize costs in that department, as also indicated by the 
> fact that they have virtually no people dealing with all that stuff to 
> begin with. So instead of ramping up testing for the same title 10 times, 
> they want to get it all done in one swoop.
>
> Guido
>
>
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