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YA wrote: > Peli: a lot of these people might be readers, rather than coders, plus > we need to factor in team factor. Public catalogs right now have less > than 50 completed programs, and I doubt many latecomers will have time > to create something complete. On the other side, many of those who > hang out in android groups contribute more than one. > > What we do not know is how many corporations and startups are out > there. I represent a corporation, Sadko Mobile ( http://sadko.mobi/ ). > Are there any other known Android corporates? > > On Apr 7, 9:17 pm, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Note that the previous guess was done prior to the deadline extension >> from March to April. >> >> It is nevertheless interesting to see how the competition evolved: >> These are the numbers from January 5: >> Number of members in the various forums: >> Android Beginners. 2072 >> Android Developers: 6803 >> Android Internals: 966 >> Android Challenge: 1308 >> Android Discuss: 855 >> anddev.org: 585 >> >> And these are the numbers as of today, April 7, one week before the >> new deadline: >> Android Beginners. 3478 (+68%) >> Android Developers: 8573 (+26%) >> Android Internals: 1510 (+56%) >> Android Challenge: 1984 (+52%) >> Android Discuss: 1300 (+52%) >> anddev.org: 1876 (+220%) >> >> First of all, this means that anddev.org did a marvellous job in >> increasing their user base! :-) >> >> More interestingly, the developer's forum grew slower than all other >> forums! This may actually indicate that the developer's forums number >> has been overestimated at the beginning. This comes as no surprise, as >> the original forum was only the developer's forum, and that split into >> the other groups. Subtracting a constant 3500 members from developer's >> forum results in a comparable increase as the other forums >> ((8573-3500) / (6803-3500) = +53%). >> >> 50% increase over the last 13 weeks corresponds to roughly 20% over >> the last 6 weeks. So increasing the deadline by 6 weeks merely >> resulted in maybe 20% more applications submitted than would have been >> submitted already in March (just talking about the number of >> applications - not their quality!) >> >> Adding the 20% to the 250 non-trivial working applications in the >> original post, you end up with 300 applications mentioned above :-) >> >> If you have a working application that is not completely trivial, >> chances of winning in the first round are roughly 1/6 (meaning if you >> have 5 friends who submit, one of them or yourself may actually win). >> >> Peli >> >> PS: Do I have 5 friends in this forum who have non-trivial working >> applications, but think they can not win? :-) >> >> On Apr 7, 6:06 pm, "Muthuselvam Ramadoss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >>> 10000 vs 300 >>> >>> that's a huge gap.. proves my estimate is really an uneducated guess! >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Kornelius Tuggerson < >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> In the previous post about the number of entries it was estimated that >>>> there would be about 300 viable entries that don't crash and actually >>>> do something useful. That sounds about right to me. >>>> >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge/browse_thread/thread... >>>> >>>> On Apr 7, 8:37 am, "Muthuselvam Ramadoss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> around 10k is my uneducated guess. ofcourse, i'll change this soon ;) >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Hielko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> How many submissions will there be for the first round of the Android >>>>>> Challenge? I think it will be in the neighborhood of one thousend >>>>>> submissions, what do you think? Make an educated guess. >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> take care, >>>>> Muthu Ramadoss. >>>>> >>>>> http://mobeegal.in-findstuff closer. >>>>> >>> -- >>> take care, >>> Muthu Ramadoss. >>> >>> http://mobeegal.in-find stuff closer. >>> > > > -- Thanks. Muthu Ramadoss http://mobeegal.in http://androidrocks.in http://intellibitz.com http://twitter.com/intellibitz http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz http://slideshare.net/intellibitz http://groups.google.com/group/android-chennai +91 44 22476750 We develop innovative search solutions using LBS for Android. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
