This is a great idea. Each participant must receive a personal email stating his or her application's rank amongst the 1788 submissions.
It will surely help us do an honest self-evaluation of our efforts and our weaknesses. One of the Microsoft Office Product Program Managers had mentioned as to how in the 80's when Microsoft Office was not the #1 Office Productivity Suite but much much lower (probably ranked 25th or so in the US), Bill Gates vowed at an internal Microsoft meeting that they would be # 1 in the future (which they are today). He did this by ensuring that they had the best app in the marketplace. I am positive that there are many people like me on this forum who will take this initial setback of not qualifying for this round as a stepping stone for further improving our Android apps. And remember, Android's software architecture (via intents) encourages you to constantly keep improving your applications lest another better app comes along and throws your app out. Yes. Loosing is definitely disappointing. In fact, very disappointing. The 25000$ price and the recognition would have definitely helped. But I have full confidence in Google's fairness and judging process. The Top 50 apps were better than my app in the eyes of the esteemed industry experts. That is the reality. So, my 2 cents to all 1728 app authors, do not get discouraged. Drown your sorrows over the weekend and come back on Monday freshly charged with how you can improve your future Android apps. Google can definitely help by letting us know our rankings privately. And my take-aways from my 500+ hours of Android hard work since November 2007. Knowledge of Mobile Software Development + Android + Eclipse + Java + Sqlite (all of which was zero before Android). Android Fan, Mumbai, India. On May 10, 2:53 am, q2dm1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On second thought the judge scores will mostly tell you if your readme > was good, so if you want constructive feedback better ask your friends > or post here and ask the community. > > On May 9, 11:46 pm, thrusty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I agree-- as we're continuing to improve our application for public > > release later this year, it'd be great to see the scores the judges > > gave us, and any comments they might have had. > > > Google, if you've retained these, can you please release them to us?- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
