"I'm in the dark here!" Al Pacino as the blind army man in the movie "Scent of a woman" How many people can understand that emotion, I wonder.
kurosh On May 17, 7:41 am, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:37 PM, gtandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Google's initial ADC announcement that among other applications, they > > would also be looking for humanitarian applications, or apps helping > > economic development, was a bit surprising at first, but also > > refreshing. This gave an impression that this business giant is also > > looking at "doing good" with the challenge. > > > But the following entry that was ranked in the lowest quartile for > > every category (originality of this app is below the weather app) > > broke all the illusion. > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge/browse_thread/thread... > > > At first I questioned why ADC put "humanitarian/economic development" > > as a category. As a business entity what would google gain by putting > > this as a category? I had answered my own question that Google does > > everything different, and possibly it is doing so again. There is no > > application from this category (except if we consider the family > > safety type of apps) in the first 50. > > This is really just another example of how misleading this contest was: > 1) 1 Open-Source Project (How open is Android?) > 2) No Games (they mentioned this one as well) > 3) No Humanitarian apps > > Shane > > > > > > > I want to find out how many applications submitted to ADC fall in this > > category, and how they are ranked.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
