poor old man, i wonder how you've lived so long. can a group of motherboard/handset manufacturers and search engine researcher make dreams of app software developers come true?
as you and i do, they know nothing of killer mobile apps when there is none. if they did, we've got a killer phone. be realistic. for judges, except guess and favor, not much they can do. for participants, except luck and disappoint, no much they can have. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andre.Legendre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Android Challenge" <android-challenge@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 8:33 AM Subject: [android-challenge] Re: The Biggest Problem > > Dreaming Kids.... > > I am 54 years old and made succesfull software from many years. > > I remember having met some Larry Page kid looking for investor and > getting nobody to spend 30s on his project. > I even spent a whole day with Steve Jobs presenting his Next station > in Opio France) near me and during the whole day nobody took care > about his job but now all this next ideas are in iPhone. > > So I know that even with good ideas and a lot of talent and a lot of > work it is still difficult. > > But our project should have been tested : it was the deal. We work > hard to help promote Android and we get back Google partners focus and > eventually some more. > > The way it went, gave advantage to nice mockup demos and graphics and > disadvantage strong back end solutions. > > But mockup demos is not good enough. Google succeed not because of the > look of it's main page (as bad as mine) it was not so innovative > (AltaVista and other was strong and from a long time) > It gave only better search result and better ad's business > management : nothing you can see reading the doc or prove against a > mockup demo. > > So we are not all kids but we would like to have a fair and fun ADCII. > > Many kids participate to linux and many other open source projects and > all only because they was dreaming of big success. > They was right : they changed and are still changing the rules. > > What went wrong is that no attention was given to all this 1738 > dreamers. > And it would have been so simple to change this. It is still possible. > > Just do it. > > Thank's you to name me a dreaming kid this is better gift than 25000$. > > Andre > > On May 18, 4:18 pm, Joa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 16, 12:23 pm, Braden Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > $25,000 to me, doesn't really matter - > > > > I could put that money on a table too, and so could many others here, > > I am sure... but that's not the point. Would you put that money (minus > > taxes) on the line to hire a lawyer so you can go fight in court > > against patent trolls while Android & app pool are still in their > > infancy? You've got to be pretty bold not to fold. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
