To the winners:
Congratulations and best of luck.
To the non-winners:
Take a deep breath and calm down :)
If your idea is good and you are committed to your product you should
continue work on it.
Perhaps your application did not get evaluated properly, many posts
regarding server logs appear to show that perhaps all reviews were not
to everyones satisfaction. Or perhaps the subset of judges you were
randomly assigned just did not grock your product/idea, that does not
mean it is not good.
The truth of the matter is, the judges are only the final judgement on
your idea if you let them be.
What was your plan?
With 50 winners and 1788 entries you had a 2.8% chance of winning.
Did you plan for the 97.2% chance of loosing? Even if you filter out
half or 3/4ths as simple proofs of concept you still had a small
chance of winning (5.6% or 11.2%).
If what you have built is solid there is no reason you should not port
it to other platforms. Google I think might even have hinted at this
as there are no restrictions on what the prize/grant can be used for.
Ask yourself the following:
1. Do you think Google or any OHA member will stop supporting other
platforms once Android is out?
Of course they will continue to support other platforms, because it is
about providing products to users not a "platform war". Being
platform centric makes you loose to products that are not, and limits
the users that will adopt your product.
2. What will supporting other platforms get you?
a) If you already support other platforms when Android comes out you
will have an advantage in having an already existing userbase. For
example the social network applications, which would you adopt?
i) The one which is lets you connect to your friends/contacts etc
that have non Android phones?
ii) The Android only that only lets you connect to friends with
Android phones?
b) Potential income/users now. If you go Android only it will
likely be until September/October at the earliest, can you subsist
until then without revenue?
c) Eliminate risk - the Android platform is an unknown, it will very
likely work. However there is nothing that says it will be adopted.
Developing for existing platforms eliminates that risk. There could
be delays, both in making the final Android version, manufacturing
delays, anything is possible. Try going to an investor with the pitch
of Android only.
d) Access to users that cant or wont switch to Android. There are
many reasons people would not switch, existing contract with phone
provider, monetary reasons, not offered in their area, already have a
phone they are satisfied with, etc....
If you are still upset from loosing wait until the list comes out
before you make final judgement on this competition. Perhaps there
will be applications on the list that you would like to be able to put
on your phone.
I totally understand the need of venting, I was deflated when I got
the "regret.." email. If you still feel like you were personally
snubbed by this competition (and by Android/Google or whomever) ask
yourself if you would have felt this way had you won or are you
perhaps suffering a bit from being a sore looser.
If after seeing the list tomorrow you are still upset and feel that
the competition did not bring you anything why don't you take solace
in that by not winning you are no longer tied to ADC and can go your
merry way. Heck you might even have a leg up on the winners by
pursuing other platforms now. But being upset and depressed will not
help you succeed.
Either way you did learn something from this experience, you just need
to decide what that was.
My 2 cents,
Finn
http://www.teedroid.com
P.S. TeeDroid did not win, but since this message got long I'll do a
post mortem in another message at another time. D.S.
P.P.S. I am going to Google I/O and hope to meet some of you there.
D.S.
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