I'm amazed that they gave away the figures so early :-) I was thinking about updating my original estimate, including the number of multiple entries based on the multiple entries in the challenge-meter - maybe an average factor of 2.
Mutliply this with the guess I had already on January 5 ( http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge/browse_frm/thread/61b536656d60aba2/45f00e2a0ec19fa2#45f00e2a0ec19fa2 ) [cite] * around 700 individual developer submissions worldwide, of which about 150 may be regarded as "not completely trivial". * maybe 100 indivudual group submissions of which maybe 30 are serious. * around 40 open source submissions worldwide (this is an astonishingly low number! But where are the open source projects?) * around 60 business entities submissions worldwide, of which maybe 30 deal specifically with the Android platform. [/cite] You'd get amazingly close to he published numbers. Of course, these numbers won't say anything about the quality of the entries. But I don't think Google can / will release the number of "not completely trivial applications". That is actually the relevant number for anybody who put some effort into their application (you are not competing against the thousand "Hello world" applications!), so the number of "serious" entries should still lie around 300 :-) But that is of course a number that we shall never know :-) Peli On Apr 18, 8:07 am, Muthu Ramadoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Way off my original 10K prediction, and almost double the revised 900 > entries. > > 1788 from all over the world, cool! > > http://mobeegal.in > find stuff closer. > > On Apr 18, 10:59 am, jalopy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > So, there are a total of 1,788 entries after all. > > >http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/04/android-developers-hav... > > > On Apr 17, 3:06 pm, Incognito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > John, If they never go ahead and publish the numbers why would you say > > > 140? Remember that a lot of people are submitting sometimes 2, 3 or 5 > > > applications (I submitted three by the way) so even if 140 were > > > representative of the unique developers there will probably be around > > > 300 to 500 entries. > > > Heck I'd say around 1000 entries (and then I would emphasize that you > > > were competing with the best of the best from around the world, which > > > is probably true) If I were in the interview. Who is going to prove > > > you wrong? Google is not going to tell them you are wrong. As far as > > > we knew this estimate could be very close to the real one. > > > > On Apr 17, 1:54 pm, "John P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > aye, it'll be nice to know the total number of submissions for > > > > bragging rights. > > > > > "So your resume says you've won the Google Android Developer > > > > Challenge. What was the competition like? How many entries? > > > > > "140 ..." > > > > > "Oh yeah? How many winners?" > > > > > "50 ..." > > > > > "Oh. I guess it wasn't too competitive then ..." > > > > > On Apr 17, 12:41 pm, luckydroid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hielko, > > > > > I prefer your estimate to mine! > > > > > :-) I will adjust mine to around 300. > > > > > Will there ever be an official announcement of total no. of > > > > > submissions? > > > > > Or will it always be this futile guessing with no answer? > > > > > -mac- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
