Well put, Steve.
On May 10, 11:42 am, StevePotell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well Phase I of the contest is over for me and 1737 others. I blame
> the judges, Google, the 50 who won, the gods of fate, everyone else
> but me, who is perfect, and had the greatest idea since the invention
> of sliced bread. I am now going to abandon Android and port my
> application to the Apple iPhone, Windows Mobile, and J2ME just to poke
> Google in the eye for not seeing my great idea.
>
> The only problems standing in my way is that I do not have a 10+ year
> relationship with Apple and they won't give me the time of day. That
> if I write my app for cracked iPhones, Apple will probably turn off my
> app with the next software update. Windows mobile is mainly a
> business phone and my application is aimed at consumers. None of the
> carriers have actually figured out how to monetize a Windows Mobile
> app but I will show them the way if I can just get one of them to talk
> to me. I do not have the millions of dollars that will be required to
> port and test my application for 5000 different J2ME handsets. I do
> not have existing relationships with all the carriers and OEMs.
> Trivial issues I know, they shall all beat a path to my door.
>
> So I am just going to go spend thousands of dollars on Apple and
> Microsoft software and hardware and plan to give them 30%+ of my
> revenue just because I did not win! I don't think so.
>
> On Monday some very important information will be available to us and
> that is a brief description about the applications that did win. This
> is a window into the members of Open Handset Alliance and what they
> feel they can make money with. So I plan to look long and hard at
> this information, analyze it, look into the very souls of the judges
> and then completely ignore it and submit my great ideas in the next
> competition. I do not program the ordinary I program the
> extraordinary and if the judges do not see that well, that's OK by
> me. Not everyone sees the world as I do.
>
> I look at Android as the vehicle that will allow me to write one to
> three applications a year that will appeal to 10 to 30 thousand people
> enough that they will be willing to buy my applications. This means I
> get to make a living as an independent developer living any where in
> the world yet selling my apps worldwide. So the judges did not "get"
> the idea I submitted, guess what, I have three more waiting in the
> wind and who knows one of my apps just might go viral and make me a
> fortune.
>
> We had a 3% chance of winning based on the number of entries in the
> contest but remember, the winning entries have a 40% chance of getting
> more money and get to pitch to a VC. So be sure to look at this
> thread before you move
> on:http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge/browse_thread/thread....
> If I offer to help one of the teams it means I have to put my own
> ideas aside for a couple of months maybe longer if they win. There is
> no guarantee that they will win but I think the experience might be
> worth it.
>
> I do not know what road you will take as you develop your mobile
> applications but the road I am traveling leads to Android.
>
> Steve
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