On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:38 AM, YA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess the key answer to all weirdness that even let some hapless > applicants bitching here is ORIGINALITY. All the top apps are VERY > original (some are original beyond my humble comprehension) but most > are "niche" - fit for a special interest or purpose. Lack of PIM apps > can be explained that judges decided that Gcal, Gmail etc will do the > trick but lack of basic utility apps can only be explained that they > are not original enough. Take a connection manager or an alarm clock - > 100% indispensable and 0% original. Hence, overall score around 50%.
I was expecting we would get dinged for originality but not for indispensability, I took the latter as given. > > BTW, what is your location? Somewhere in Europe? We have a couple guys in Europe and I'm in the Seattle area. If you guys have an interest in app managers, there might be room for collaboration. We are building out some back end systems as well. We are setting up atom feeds for app info: http://jv.slideme.org:8080/atomserver/v1/applications/apk Shane > > > YA > > On May 16, 10:26 pm, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:18 AM, YA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Shane: > > > > > honest, I am surprised! You know we did DroidStor that had some > > > similar functionality. > > > > > DroidStor > > > > > Effective use: In the top 25% of all submitted applications > > > Polish: In the top 25% of all submitted applications > > > Indispensability: In the top 25% of all submitted applications > > > Originality: In the top 25% of all submitted applications > > > > > Overall: In the top 25% of all submitted applications > > > > > Perhaps your application simply crashed in testing? I recall that when > > > I first downloaded and tested it, I could not get it to run. > > > > Well, no way it crashed, I stripped out all the network connections > > (couldn't get a clear answer on what the test network environment was > > supposed the be). We did fix that problem with the community client. It > had > > some missing data on the JV server. > > > > > > > > > I am just as surprised that we had at least 3 app managers in the ADC > > > but none made it to top. And without an app manager, who will get all > > > these great winning apps - and get to know about the other? > > > > Unbelievable! How can judges miss this? It's mobile 101. > > > > Shane > > > > > > > > > YA > > > > > On May 16, 9:11 pm, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > SAM - SlideME Applications Manager > > > > > > Effective use: In the 50th to 75th percentile of all submitted > > > applications > > > > Polish: In the 50th to 75th percentile of all submitted applications > > > > Indispensability: In the 50th to 75th percentile of all submitted > > > > applications > > > > Originality: In the 50th to 75th percentile of all submitted > applications > > > > Overall: In the 50th to 75th percentile of all submitted applications > > > > > > Hmm, I guess an application manager that delivers content to the > device > > > is > > > > not indespensible. Who would need that? Now I know the ADC judges > were > > > > smoking crack. > > > > > > Shane > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
