Even though our entry is not in the top 50. I still think the contest was/is well run.
I know of one winning entry, Locale, from the MIT folks. It is phone behavior in context of location. As a customer, I was looking for a shareware utility with location based ring tones and I asked for it on a forum. The MIT folks did it AND they added automatic call forwarding to your land line when at home. Ideally they incorporated every configuration button push and are letting your location set the configuration. It is a good utility that will help sell phones. Google needs something like this. The fact that people were asking for it as a shareware utility shows it obvious, so nobody needs to worry about patents or patent infringment. Just serve it to people and be done. This contest and discussion eliminated a bunch of legal fees and false claims of exclusivity that serve no one well. Google is now in a position to just get it done. Google is picking stuff that gets them where they want to go... not necessarily where they have been. Our application purposed to "Organize the worlds (traffic) information into an accessible form" - specifcally cell structures that even the $50 non-GPS handset can access. That is similar to the principle Google was founded on. Either they found a better application to do that, or they are going in a different direction now. If you have children, you know they grow and change and have their own agenda - and it does change. No company or person lives up to the mythical proportions some form in their minds. They have to make finite choices on limited information. Some have said, "Google is a commercial company." I see them partnering to make choices that serve people. Folks can only maintain a finite number of interfaces. Google has made their selection. Fortunately, our team is now free to apply ourselves to serve people in a time and way of our choosing. Ed On May 9, 3:40 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To the majority of the contenders of the android challenge: You did > not win the competition and it is unfortunate but life goes on. Like > me, you probably took the challenge thinking, hey I have a cool idea, > let me give it a shot, or maybe you poured your blood and sweat into > building the coolest thing you could think of but found the submission > process didn't work for you, or server logs showed very little > activity. > > In any case, you're probably irked to say the least. In my opinion, > this process should have been run with a higher respect towards > entrants in the competition. This would include better forum support, > additional insight into where the judging process was at, both at a > competition level and at a level specific to your particular > application. In addition, the adc blog has not even been updated to > provide any information on the contest coming to a close at the time > of this writing. > > Google, > This has not been a fun competition, the contenders of the competition > cannot see where their applications stand in regard to the top 50, nor > is there any consolation prize or reason given for losing the > competition. This is notice, that I personally will no longer be > competing in, or recommending your competitions until this is > corrected. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to android-challenge@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
