I guess the really strong point of this application is that it has an incredible wow effect. However, once you get pass that and actually start to use it you begin to wonder what is the point of the flying and of the house and stuff. Maybe not much, probably all could be done in text but that would not be very appealing though. I think all of those animations are eye candy, and though not technically hard to do they are probably more compelling than applications that do not have a nice polish look like this one. Bottomline is that you hever know what will be a hit. My gut feeling is that the ones that will become hits, i.e. go on to earn millions of dollars will not necessarily win the challenge, for if it were that easy to spot a winner than we would all be rich. No, only the market can truely judge the big winner. It will be nice to receive the $300K dollars if you win the top place but that doesn't mean that you cannot make many times more money than that if you do not even make it to the top 50.
For example, I would have never guessed that myspace, youtube, and facebook would become billionaire applications. To be frank they are not truely innovative. Youtube is so popular only because it has so much pirated content. myspace is just a rehash of Yahoo's geocites (I think). Facebook, I cannot think of any previous attempts. Anyway, don't get discouraged if you do not win. Historically speaking is not usually the person or team that wins 1st place that go on to be #1 on the market. Clear example, The Oscars (or Academy Awards as its officially called). On Apr 30, 10:51 pm, "John P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm very impressed by the overlay and avatar animation on the map. > The video was excellent as well -- I think the background music set > the mood very well. > > Question: what's the point of the house? Also, does the avatar add > anything when traveling virtually? I mean, you can already pan and > zoom on the map without the avatar. In fact, dragging your avatar > across the map takes longer than instantly zooming to that > destination. So I'm guessing that Duo's primary goal isn't > information access, but rather creation of community and hanging out. > > The idea of merging real world with virtual world is innovative, but > I'm missing how that's attractive. I mean, Sims gives a complete > virtual world that you can create and customize, and there is no > physical limitation. This is fun. Flying through the real world > through Google Earth is fun because you get to see far away places > without actually being there. This is fun. But to combine both ... > it seems to fail incorporating both qualities? It doesn't give > unlimited structure. And although it does give real world > information, such information can be retrieved much faster by a direct > web search. > > I guess I didn't catch the focus of the application. Since only a > video was posted, and no documentation, forgive me for missing the > point. If I wanted fun, I'd play the Sims since it gives me more > freedom to customize my world. If I wanted information, I'd do a web > search or do some location based searches -- soon to become visually > available by other applications too. But to mix fun + information > seems neither: not fun and slow information. Could you clarify how > Duo aims to attract customers? Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
