judging apps based on "whole new" idea seems controversy, because seems like android encourages "re-invention" of existing idea, too.
am i wrong? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Pisarev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Android Challenge" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:47 AM Subject: [android-challenge] Re: PREDICT the Winners - Fun, Fun & Fun. Relax, take it easy and don't be shy ;) > > My 2 cents. > > PlusMinus, Peli and Zhobbs are great community commiters, however, > that won't be taken into consideration during judging. > > Everything below is listed to what I would say if I were a judge. > > As for their apps, I know nothing about what Zhobbs has submitted, but > OpenIntents is actually a developer library rather than an application > itself, hence, the juddges will probably judge their sample apps and I > doubt that those will get high scores with regards to idea originality > and indespensibility - there are a lot far more original and > indespensible apps at the challenge. > As for PlusMinus's AndNav - it's cool and polished, quite > indespensible, however, the originality of idea and the use of Android > features marks will most probably be quite low here as actually not > much used. > > Good examples of the apps that will get the high scores in all 4 > categories are location-based games like PK and Wi-Fi Army (PK will > have a little lower score in the usage of Android platform, though), > also map-based application called Marvin and Enkin. I would even say > that Marvin will score more than Enkin as it's more functional and > inspensible. > > As for Pocket Journey- I don't see anything cool in here, the idea is > quite old (check Wikimapia, for example), polishing and usability are > definetely not at the top, usage of Android is limited to map services/ > multimedia only and it's dispensability is really under question (I > would imagine that only some pensioner tourists as well as some > "walking encyclopedias" will be interested). However, they might be > able to get a grant from their local municipality or something for > that sort of thing, as it actually promotes tourism :) > > > Intentionally not talking about our app, hope to receive some judging > on it after we release our first teaser. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
