your words sound reasonable by the first hearing but understand it to be brain-damaged.
if adc 2 will employ the same judges and the same criteria the same way as adc 1, it is only the other ha-ha. most of all, this is not a community of google, winners and you. please learn to listen to voice from the others. if you cant, please leave. ----- Original Message ----- From: "denisdsr20" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Android Challenge" <android-challenge@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 4:12 AM Subject: [android-challenge] Re: Boycott of ADC II > > Not sure to really understand the trouble. > > With ADC I we tried to be in the winner list but we know that 98% of > us will not be in this list. > > ADC I is a contest some win some not. > > People here are merging too much different things : > - the contest > - Google as a whole > - Android as a new product > - Apps we wrote > > Contest : it's passion oriented with gratification, pains and > frustation, but it's over now. ADC II will be in the same "color" if > we are able to face same things let's go to ADC II, if not stay away > for it. > > Google : they did not promise anything except the fact they 'll choose > 50 apps and give 25k$ for each. We subscribe to these rules, they too. > > Android : We have in our hands opportunity to create new applications > and business, not only for a contest but for real life. If we choose > android only because we have 2% chance to win, I think we miss the > best of android > > Our Apps : It's OUR apps, should be the best, should be recognized by > others as the best jewell for next decade. Sometimes it is, sometimes > not. Now we have to make choice : > - trash it, because we are judging that this app is poor compared to > others, or because of too much frustration > - Go back to work, and make it a real value added app for the market. > > Why this challenge is a good thing, and why ADC II will be too ? > How could we have is such short time (2 month) a vision of what can be > done with android, what are the applications coming from 150 > countries. > > My ranking for boycott is : (- infinite) > > Denis / France > www.sr20service.com > > > On May 18, 12:47 am, ConAim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +1 > > Keep on hopping babe. More likely they are having ton of issue trying > > to get an hardware run properly. > > And from the point of introduction new hardware to the point of > > putting it out of the door is in a minimum of 1+ years. > > And I'm sure no one would be doing anything now to trying to compete > > with iPhone. > > You freak can keep on hopping.... > > > > On May 17, 4:42 pm, hitsu_g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -1. > > > ADC wasn't perfect and things could have been done better, but even > > > with Apple's AppStore opening "soon" I think that ADCII is likely to > > > be the best opportunity for independent software developers trying to > > > make a start of things (like myself), and I hope to make the most of > > > it. > > > > > On May 18, 5:04 am, jaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > +1, let me show you some real life example: > > > > may be i'm wrong but this is what i have: > > > > > > my quartile score results: > > > > Effective use: In the 25th to 50th 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 is then 50th-75th. > > > > > > so far so good, but reality is that i participated with basically same > > > > idea than one among winning apps (concretely Locale app)! > > > > Actually by what i know about Locale it could be just a part of my > > > > system. > > > > To be complete my app was rather in prototype phase with no design and > > > > minimum features but working to show the ideas. > > > > Explanations i passed in readme file of course. > > > > > > So checking my score opens a mistrust to ADC. > > > > > > On May 17, 7:54 pm, "Muthu Ramadoss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > -1. > > > > > > > Why would anyone boycott ADC 2? What do you stand to gain? > > > > > > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:31 PM, tberthel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > The fuss is: > > > > > > > > DUO > > > > > > SlideME > > > > > > HandyCalc > > > > > > AllBinary Game Development Kit > > > > > > > > and about 20 others that are obviously better than the winners that > > > > > > didn't even score in the top 25% > > > > > > > > On May 17, 10:49 am, Zach Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > -1, not sure what all the whining and fuss is about. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > Zach Hobbs > > > > > > > HelloAndroid.com > > > > > > > Android OS news, tutorials, downloads > > > > > > > > > On Friday 16 May 2008 23:06:40 Shane Isbell wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I don't think that the original promises of the ADC I were carried out. > > > > > > The > > > > > > > > community was taken for a ride on this one. > > > > > > > > > > +1 for boycott of ADC II > > > > > > > > > > Shane > > > > > > > -- > > > > > take care, > > > > > Muthu Ramadoss. > > > > > > >http://cookingcapsules.com-nourishyourdroid.http://mobeegal.in-findstuffclo ser.- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text - > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. 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