Really good observation. The discrepancy between the developer's forum (around 9000) and the challenge forum 2116, makes sense now. Only the developers that were really interested in the challenge subscribed to this forum. The rest of the developers are still interested in Android but because of school, country of residence (i.e Italy, parts of Canada) or other responsibilities, were not able to commit to the challenge or they simply thought they had no chance competing against developers from around the world, some of which are probably the best of the best. Personally I know a lot of developers that would like to learn Android simply to put it on their resumes and/or get a new job (if Android becomes really hot) but they would never enter this type of contest because they are of the type of people that believe that they nor anybody they know could possibly win this challenge. By the way, I try to stay away from that type of people as much as I can (somtimes is hard because I have to work with some of them), they have an incredible negative energy and will try to pull down with them everybody they know. They get really mad when they meet people with high positive attitudes and will always tell you that what you are trying to do cannot be done. Anyway, I think i'm going off topic now so let me stop now.
On Apr 18, 7:47 am, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very good observation :-) But wouldn't that be too simple for a > credible estimate? :-) > > Peli > > On Apr 18, 1:26 pm, "Muthu Ramadoss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 1788 closely resembles the android-challenge forum member count. The current > > forum count is 2116. > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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/61... > > > ) > > > > [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 - > > > -- > > take care, > > Muthu Ramadoss. > > >http://mobeegal.in > > find stuff closer.- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
