Correct, that is the problem, coming up with good ideas. However, I believe, I may be wrong, that corporations have just as hard a time with coming up with good ideas as any of us. After all, they are just humans as the rest of us.They do have a lot of money and resources to super polish an application, but generating a good idea I believe is not as easy. Anyway, we'll see. I was wrong before on my estimates by a large margin. If corporate applications are the majority then I will say that the reason could be because the judges got misleaded by the polish of the application. Two examples, Google and Yahoo have a lot of talent but most of their new ideas are not necessarily home run hitters. Yahoo has not been able to come with a good idea to save itself even though it has more than 2 billion dollars in cash.
On May 6, 10:05 pm, "Dan U." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't jumped into the post-submission challenge discussion much, > so I figured it's about time. I think there will be fewer individual > winners than team winners and fewer team winners than business > winners. The more people/money you have, the more talent you get. > Also, you get more "ideas" for applications or application features. > It's similar to asking someone to review your resume when applying for > a job. They can point out things you've missed and the little details > and errors make a difference. > > I've submitted a few applications to the challenge, but I'm quite > confident I will NOT be a winner. I had time to polish and I find > implementing features fairly easy. The problem for me is coming up > with good ideas. Keyword being "good". > > On May 6, 5:48 pm, Incognito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I disagree with you. I would be really surprised if most of the > > winners were not individuals and small teams. Why? Because most of the > > new ideas come from individuals and small teams in my opinion. > > Assuming that the distribution of good ideas is the same among > > individuals and corporations then I think we should have more > > individuals (and small teams) winning. > > > On May 6, 8:21 pm, Biosopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My $.02. > > > > The Android Challenge community is most likely identical to other > > > online communities. > > > > If so, then <5% of the people entering into the Google Challenge are > > > actually active participants in the community. That would be in line > > > with the number of Challenge submissions as 1788 * .05 = 100 is > > > roughly the number of people that posted to the ChallengeMeter post. > > > > Given that we've seen mostly individual Challenge participants posting > > > here, my guess is the majority of the non-posters are the company & > > > team submitters. Since those team/company submissions are most likely > > > to win due to greater time/effort spent on their submissions, the > > > majority of the top 50 winners are probably people that have not been > > > active in this community. > > > > If you followed all that, this is the unfortunate reality of most > > > communities...i.e. that the many benefit from the posts of the few. > > > With a new product like Android, it's guaranteed that every Challenge > > > submission benefited greatly from the dialogue in these communties, > > > but sadly few of those who benefited probably gave back to that same > > > community (ie. were active posters). > > > > So the short end of my answer is "No...I wouldn't expect many people > > > who are posting to this community to have many hits from the judges as > > > we're probably not in the top 50." I REALLY hope I'm just being > > > cynical and pessimistic...but then again, that would mean this > > > community is unlike the majority of online communities out there. > > > > This isn't a diss at Google or online communities, but simple the sad > > > fact of our society in general. > > > > Now please...please...let me be proven wrong when the winners are > > > announced...!- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
