No offense. But I think all your theory can only be verified until the announcement. Otherwise, it is just plain whine from losers and bullshit to placate yourself. Though it wastes time to read and refute. But I am here to waste my time to troll with you. Bear with me.
I did not post anything on this board. I read the sdk documents and discussions for 3 months until April and decide to write a simple client server apps to submit. I had thought 20 different ideas, but I noticed the SDK lacking of a lot of features that I like to use. Beside a lot of ideas that I had rely on physical implementations of accelerometer and location chip. And I don't trust emulation software and would rather to test on the real one until the hardware is shipped. I did not use Java since 2000 but for me the whole sdk makes sense without all the crap from J2EE. Though the system is based on Linux, but the system is customized to do mobile. So no virtual memory like your desktops and servers and all the activity APIs look just like a glorified applet style programming and it is very easy to do what I want. I spent only 40 hours spreaded in 2 weeks to implement everything that I want in Android and PHP server side. But I don't have any time to do art works. I saw my server log yesterday. I saw access on May 6th. The access is from all over the world. >From Germany, US. Spain, Taiwan. And one of the judge just felt so bored to use my app and typed a sentence to said he was bored. As an independent developer, I guess that the idea is good enough to top 100 here. So I am starting to port it to iPhone now. I guess my simple app just hit the right spot. No manual to read. No registration. It is just work as it should be. And I try to treat the users as moron and the UI is cut down from a more complex one. I guess a simple mobile app is what people need. The complexity of current desktop software is not compatible with mobile phone. One reason that I did not post anything here is it seems like everyone here likes cool complex stuffs, while I would just like something not frustrating my grandfather. And I just like things to work. So I guess I have nothing to feed back to most people here that looking for advance stuffs. On May 6, 10:38 pm, Google Watch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the Android Challenge legit or an elaborate form of phishing, > or even an outright scam of sorts? > > It seems that the challenge has a few glaring problems: > 1) The rules favor teams and/or individuals with financial > backing or resources. > > The Challenge is scored in 4 areas. I suggest that Originality > and Indispensibility are areas that favor contributors equally > whether they are poor individuals or well funded teams. > However "Effective Use of the Android Platform" and > "Polish and Appeal" penalize those with limited financial > resources. These qualities require more time to implement > thereby favoring those who could spend more time on the > challenge than those who responded to the challenge > in the "Willy Wonka" spirit (believing all had a chance) > and had to work on the challenge in their spare time. > > 2) Google discontinued support for the Challenge users > while continuing to support OHA and other stakeholders > (e.g., device manufacturers, MIT) thereby marginalizing/ > under supporting the Challenge members. > > Using the Android platform, which > despite being Linux and Java, is no picnic or walk in the park. > The processing model is *different* (and I'll question it's necessity > on a Linux platform in another post), the SDK has bugs, the > documentation has inconsistencies (e.g., look at the various > places where TableLayout and table row are documented), > pieces of the SDK were missing (e.g., BT, etc.) and so on. > And while independents were toiling away trying to slog through > the Android'isms and bugs, Google was actively supporting members > of the OHA (are they really on the same SDK version as we are?) > Are all submitters *really* isolated from those who had more > inside information? Access to the source? > > 3) Participants who fail to win in round 1 stand to lose even more. > > When you made your submission you agreed that if Google > or any of the Judges developed your idea you had no recourse. > What if Google/Judges never had the idea before you submitted it? > Had not yet visualized it on the Android platform before the > entries were submitted? Do you think you can get your idea to > market faster than the multi-billion dollar Google juggernaut? > In it's most perverse form isn't it all really a way for Google > to potentially get 1700+ original ideas for which they only > need to pay for 50? > > /GW > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. 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