> Obviously there have been issues with this competition. It's clear > that the judging process could be improved, and obviously Google is > doing a pretty poor job at developer communication or even sticking to > their schedules.
If the judges actually DID something then I'd agree with you and call it a process. Otherwise the correct term is "joke". > ...then you're probably good at writing code, but you don't really > understand what people want. All of these applications, as well as the > others, tap into whats in the public's consciousness (which includes > by the way about 50% females) and shows a unique mobile application of > that idea. The duplicates show different innovations in the same space > (the next round is going to be tough for them). You're obvously good at writing "positive" comments, but if you think people want cooking and carbon footprint reduction applications then you must live in a very different world than the one I live in. They may be useful of course, I love to cook and I imagine I'd use them myself from time to time, but we're talking about la creme de la creme, the flagship products of the Android platform here. Applications you'd use every day, whenever you are. Applications that make you ask yourself how the hell you managed to live without them until now. Trust me, a cooking application doesn't meet this criteria. Also, I'm kind of sensitive to bad UI design and if I was a customer and someone told be, hey that's the best Android has to offer, I would run away as fast as I can and never come back. Don't get me wrong, I'm just talking about SOME of the winning applications here, but for them to be in the top 50 when we have gems like, and I'll refer again to Five (because it is the perfect example of a good idea implemented with a clean, useful and beautiful UI meeting a real demand real customers have right NOW) is in my opinion inexcusable. And if you imply that women prefer other applications than men, yes, that's true to some extent, but again, a cooking application isn't going to win you half of your customer base. I can actually back up that statement, because before I began development I actually went out and ASKED some females what they'd find useful on their phones, and none of them said, you know, a cooking or a carbon footprint reduction app would be great. > Some of you people have obviously worked hard on your application. But > surely, in this age of iPods, we've learnt that a long list of > features is not going to get you customers. Some of the applications > that didn't win are amazing and sure some would make excellent top 50 > choices. But don't think that the ones that made it to the top 50 > didn't have reasons to. And while Google did mention games and > developer tools, only ~2% of all entries were winners. So it's not > really a big deal that there weren't any "pure" games on the list or > developer tools. I personally didn't submit a game, but again, are we living in two different worlds? The game industry makes the hugest profits BY FAR; if it wasn't for games we wouldn't have seen such immense advances in hardware technology in the last 15 years or so. I don't know how old you are but if you remember Wolfenstein 3D (1991) and compare it to some of the recently released games you'll see what I'm talking about and how yes, it IS a big deal. Everybody likes to play games. I'm using my phone only to make and receive calls, write text messages and play games. A platform with no games may be cool for some time (until you're tired of all the cool LBS and social stuff) but is utlimately doomed, especially with the fierce competition it has to face nowadays. There's already Quake 3 for the iPhone, for Christ's sake. > Also, by the way I don't know what competitions you enter, but most > *don't* provide feedback to the losing entries -- you make a > submission, the winners are mentioned and maybe some honorable > mentions and that's it -- it's not an exam or a class project. At > least that's my experience in the past. Google never promised feedback > on entries. Somebody already pointed out that this is your first post, so I don't know whtether you're actually a developer or not. But even if you aren't you may be able to see that without us, the developers, Android is clearly going to die a quick and painful death. If you think that treating us with respect and doing everything to keep us interested in this platform isn't in Google's best (commercial) interest, then I honestly wouldn't know what to tell you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
