[Q] Might this be the reason for Gingerbread OTA delay?

[k_myk]

Yes, indeed. Don't know about your side of the pond, but here in Europe Ericsson (and later SonyEricsson) was a major player in mobile phone business (together with Nokia).
Even in Symbian times they had their own custom UI engine different and incompatible to other Symbian solutions. They could afford it.
Then fortunes turned, they begun to shrunk, lay off people and otherwise "increased their ability to compete".
I.e. the same stuff which was happening to Motorola. But while Motorola draw the right conclusions and produced their Droid with almost vanilla Android 2.0 (but on time), SonyEricsson management first needed to realize the simple fact, that thinned out development can't move at the same pace as in the old times.
They are learning it now the hard way. I am not sure if they did learn enough.

Little OT: Too bad that Motorola didn't bother to care and support rest of the world... cough*Milestone*cough

 

[GldRush98]

Yup. Gingerbread is turning into one big joke.

Really "smart" of Google to pull such a stunt when android is getting attacked by lawsuits and the iPhone is finally available on Verizon.
And don't even get started on fragmentation ... devs are really starting to hate android.

Wholly fuckballs... seriously?
Back in September/October it was OBVIOUS that 2.3 would be dropping Q1 of 2011. Here we are, in what... only the 4th week of Q1 2011? This is not surprising, shocking, or unexpected in the least, so stop pretending like it is. Grow up. Anyone who has been through an OS update before could clearly see this. Stop it with this ****.
Also, fragmentation is a non-issue trolled by ****ty ass blog sites that have no clue what they're talking about.

 

[danger-rat]

Wholly fuckballs... seriously?
Back in September/October it was OBVIOUS that 2.3 would be dropping Q1 of 2011. Here we are, in what... only the 4th week of Q1 2011? This is not surprising, shocking, or unexpected in the least, so stop pretending like it is. Grow up. Anyone who has been through an OS update before could clearly see this. Stop it with this ****.
Also, fragmentation is a non-issue trolled by ****ty ass blog sites that have no clue what they're talking about.

+1
What he said...

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[hlwdim]

If 2.3 still not ready, why they publish the news so earlier? I think they can just release the 2.3 to user and fix the bugs in future, or never release the news and let us wait for the OTA day and day

 

[diversificationied]

If 2.3 still not ready, why they publish the news so earlier? I think they can just release the 2.3 to user and fix the bugs in future, or never release the news and let us wait for the OTA day and day

Android 2.3 is finished, and up on AOSP.

Device specific builds are still being put together (except the NS).