Look at the "Five days of challenge" thread... http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge/browse_thread/thread/1b56a2c80dfc752
It looked like I had two people on, but Dan from google told me there had been only one actual review, and the others were "spot checks". I was a little surprised that the reviews would be so short, but it wasn't an actual review, so no big deal. As stated in that thread, I'm OK to lose, but only if somebody's looking at it. "I get the feeling the challenge as a platform to get us independent developers off the ground isn't going terribly well... given 1800 submission I figure everything just drowns in noise... I start wondering if the Alliance is going to set up an effective marketing channel for us." I don't think the challenge is really for "us". The challenge is to get some sweet apps for the platform, and generate press for the open nature of the platform. In that regard, I think its going to go very well. When the winners are announced, you'll get all sorts of free press (which is why I thought doing this might be worth it). I don't know about the marketing channel, but I wouldn't worry about it much just yet. Considering there are 1800 entries, I'm a lot more concerned about getting in the first 50. As far as marketing when the phones come out, it is going to be a little strange. A lot of the submissions I've seen are going to have serious chicken/egg problems. The platform will not be huge numbers of phones out of the gate, so anything that requires lots of existing users (social networking), or require large coverage and participation of service providers, is going to require web based or other access outside of android. You know what I mean? I think we're all going to be the first people we know with an android phone. Explaining to people why this is cool is very difficult. Hence the contest. I have a feeling when we see the set of apps that come out, explaining why android is cool will be a lot easier. I was also thinking, we might have a little surprise at the end. Lets say for the sake of argument there are more than 50 really good ideas, or at least more than the 20 or so that would make it past phase II. It wouldn't make a whole lot of sense for them to just toss them out. On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Joa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Apr 26, 8:36 am, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What > > do you do if the judges who look at your app aren't really "looking" > > at it? > Well we can only worry about what we can control. Although I'm > starting getting a little frustrated as well. > From what I can see from my end... There's been multiple startups > between 22-Apr and 24-Apr, but noone - judge or engineer - has called > an application feature yet. And there isn't even logon or anything > complicated required. All it takes is push the Menu button and select > a menu item... I get the feeling the challenge as a platform to get us > independent developers off the ground isn't going terribly well... > given 1800 submission I figure everything just drowns in noise... I > start wondering if the Alliance is going to set up an effective > marketing channel for us. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
