1984??? I should have noticed!!! The famous novel by George Orwell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
"Nineteen Eighty-Four introduces Oceania, one of the world's three intercontinental totalitarian super-states." Ok, but I will not try to link that book in any way to Google's intercontinental super-company :-) Peli On Apr 19, 8:29 am, "Muthu Ramadoss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peli, > > Here's the challenge-forum count taken directly from your analysis post: > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge/browse_frm/thread/7d... > > As of Ap 07 the count on challenge forums: > > Android Challenge: 1984 (+52%) > > If you had predicted 1984, you would have been very very close ;) > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:17 PM, 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. > > -- > 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. 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