> There is no > application from this category (except if we consider the family > safety type of apps) in the first 50. I don't know why no humanitarian apps were chosen, but I could form a guess. First, I recall shortly before the submission deadline, someone in the group asked for more humanitarian app submissions. This person had a google.com email, so it might have been a Google employee. I don't really know. If so, it sounds like they hadn't gotten many submissions for that category. Because of that, it seems like there were few to choose from and the judges just may have not liked any of them.
And, just a guess on why a business entity would do this... Google might just be a "different" company with some desire to help people instead of just maximizing profits. I don't know though. Beyond that, it might be a tax write-off to provide something usable for humanitarian issues (although I don't know the tax laws for that). On May 16, 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. > > I want to find out how many applications submitted to ADC fall in this > category, and how they are ranked. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
