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Probably the Dropbox sysadmins!

You might also find this video [1] interesting. Although it's not clear how far this company has actually got with the technology.

[1] http://vimeo.com/43431035

Oh we still get regular "lively discussions" about exactly what features are going to be in a product with a release date 6 months away. I can completely understand though; it's very difficult to leave a conversation being told "we don't know yet, it's likely to be X & Y (but we're not 100% sure) and possibly Z too".

The single biggest mistake in the example is giving an estimate for the whole project without knowing team velocity. He tried to plan everything up-front and committed to a completion date, strongly setting delivery expectations.

An Agile approach to this walk would have managed the expected target date much better and improved team morale by not overstretching each day ("sprint").

Lots of people think they know (and implement) Agile. I did, until a course I took about a year ago where I learnt skipping seemingly unimportant bits (measuring velocity, sprint retrospectives, etc.) bring the whole process crashing down.

Just because it's not in Google's name: http://www.fosspatents.com/search/label/Motorola

Edit: Ah, I see you edited when you spotted Google had in fact filed suit.

Attribution for that analogy should be given to Citrix http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/01/09/do-ultrabooks-mean-ultra-...

If you're expecting performance from BETA operating systems I may have bad news for you.

A better policy is to wait for the official releases rather than buying a UDID slot from a dodgy website.