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Originally Posted by testacon
I'm pretty sure that outside of the QA portion, all of the "red tape" as you called it is hammered out prior to buying the phones. Sprint knew that Froyo/Gingerbread is coming out prior to the phones release. I'm sure they worked out software upgrade costs prior to them stamping the Sprint logo on the phones. If they didn't HTC probably would take them to the cleaners every time they want to upgrade something.
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While I can't speak for every corporation, but at the company I work for (400K employees around the world), having something built by IT takes forever. And my description of the process is basically what happens.