why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Assertion Supported
Gisenau: Microsoft launched a free app competing with ChitChattr
“We had an incident about a week ago or so where Microsoft have launched a free app, a portion of which competes with an element of our application.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gisenau: ChitChattr faced Teams rejections from conflicting internal Microsoft requirements
“We had, for example, portions of our app get rejected because of requirements that were coming through from the main team's engineering team to the store validation team that would like literally just in conflict with one another.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gisenau: Microsoft rejected a functional Teams app for lacking business value
“We've got a few apps that we've built. One of them never made it to the actual store itself. We went through the entire process, the verifications, there were a few bugs that were raised. We addressed all of those things, et cetera. And at the end of it, Micro…”
Insight
Gisenau: Teams users mistakenly expect marketplace apps to be free
“One of the things we've found, for example, is that users are quite surprised that there's a pricing involved for the purchase of our apps. We've had a number of customers or a number of feedback items, shall we say, from users who've been quite surprised that…”
Disclosure
Gisenau: ChitChattr cut Teams app verification from one month to two days
“To give you an idea of that, our first app was probably about a month or so of verification backwards and forwards. The last app was on the order of like two days. I think there were two minor things they came back with. We fixed them and resubmitted and we we…”
Disclosure
Gisenau: ChitChattr Saw Strong Teams App Installs but Lower-Than-Expected Conversions
“We've certainly had a lot of interest, a lot of installations, pretty good uptake from that perspective, lower conversions, I think, than we expected.”