I recall an email sent during the first challenge where winners of the
first round were being given a private SDK and chance to update. It
was frustrating because I'd spent a long time working around bugs in
the GTalk classes and would have loved to have an updated SDK to work
with, even if I wasn't in the winning group.
Err, getting to the point, allowing updates at some point in the
process isn't unprecedented. That said, I notice the terms and
conditions say "Android 1.5 or higher" in all the judging sections.
Maybe moving to 1.6 during the process was expected, but the problems
running 1.5 apps on 1.6 weren't.
On Oct 7, 3:07 am, String <sterling.ud...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 6, 10:33 pm, CraigsRace <craig...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Allowing an app update would go against their own rules, so it would
> > be very controversial. Having said that, IMO, I wouldn't mind if they
> > did allow it for broken apps only (which I imagine are only a select
> > few).
>
> It could be argued that judging apps on 1.6 is also against their own
> rules:
>
> 7. SUBMISSION PERIOD
> a. SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES: To qualify for a Prize, an "Entry" to the
> Challenge consists of an original application that is written using a
> version of the Android Software Development Kit ("SDK") (available
> athttp://developer.android.com) that validly executes on Android version
> 1.5.
>
> Not being in the US, I haven't been able to test my entry against 1.6
> on an actual device yet, so I don't know if this affects me or not. I
> agree that this situation has been poorly managed, but acknowledge
> that Google is balancing competing interests here.
>
> IMHO, the best situation would be to allow EVERYONE in Round 2 a
> chance to update their apps. While this would obviously violate the
> T&C, it's the only way that I can see to keep a level playing field.
> It also ignores the effect that 1.6 may have had on Round 1, but the
> overlap there was small enough that such effects were probably
> minimal.
>
> Having said that, Google has been largely silent to the other
> developer concerns about ADC2, so realistically, I don't expect that
> there will be any acknowledgement of this one either.
>
> String
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