"I was not supposed to need to catch judge attention to get my project tested. "
do u know that 2nd and 3rd criteria should be equally weighted as the other two in the judging process??? without testing, how did these "experts" learn your app's performance per the two criteria???? what a freeky challenge! what a list of bucentaurs!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andre.Legendre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Android Challenge" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:13 PM Subject: [android-challenge] Re: Loosing entries, there is the Limo Challenge > > Hi > > Commandant Cousteau a French famous sailor sad one day : > The problem for a country of winners is that you have 90% of losers. > > How Android community is now : > A community for winners : no support nothing for the majority. > > Now it is more than 600 applications for iPhone promoted by Apple and > 100.000 download for iPhone Sdk. > > Limo is coming J2me is still here (with a hug market share). > > Google must give to us : Losers a strong signal that they want us to > keep working on Android. > > I spent 6 months full time for a very serious project with a strong > back end, and nobody to only test it... > Yes on marketing point of view I did'nt make all promotions docs and > video but we still have 6 months to wait to sell it. > I was not supposed to need to catch judge attention to get my project > tested. They was supposed to give some attention to judge it. > > Personally I don't really care, I already succeed in many places, and > I am going to swim in a few minutes, > but I understand how it could be frustrating for some young guys who > invest personally so much time and sometime money to get no attention. > > We don't have any news about next release, and during that time I see > in some news paper that Dan said that releases are coming every 2 > weeks. > We don't have any news about what is going on in Google about Android. > I see yesterday in Monney Cnn that Android is critical for Google > because they need more than one source of revenue. > We don't have any news about team working on Android. Who they are, > how it is going, success and failures. > Nothing : just a black box with 10 millions $ on it. > > I get one mail and some news from Apple almost every day. And I get > info from Maemo group (Nokia) also. > > Win or lose is not the problem, we knew at the beginning that it would > be only 50 winners among 2 or 3000 projects all made by clever guys. > And after a fair game losers are proud to support winners because they > are part of the same group. > > We are looking to be part of a fun and fair game. Nothing more nothing > less. > > Any Google answer welcome > > Andre > > > > On May 15, 1:00 am, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:59 PM, mathiastck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > You don't think BREW was a good business decision? It sure made > > > Verizon a lot of money... > > > > Sure and it sucked for developers. > > > > Shane > > > > > > > > > On May 14, 11:03 am, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yeah, like BREW was. > > > > > > Shane > > > > > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Verizon picked LiMo... 'cuz LiMo have REAL handsets on the market > > > now... > > > > > it's a good business decision! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
