In theory. In reality, there's that customer/user who wants to use an app, like now, and that developer who wants to support this, and a slew of other users who just walked out of that <fill in carrier> store with that <fill in device>. Lab days, loaners are all just compromises to actually having a device available. Meetups (which I frequent when I can) also go down differently (today). A few months back I did a roundabout call over pre-meetup pizza just to find out... I "needed" to test on a China borne Milestone (they have some location issue), but noone around even knew, or strangely enough, was interested to hear about it. A closer look, and almost noone had anything other than G1's and Droids and seemed to just about be "getting into Android".
On Jul 6, 3:39 am, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:37 AM, JP <joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2. Google, please bring back and build out the lab days > > If you live in a city big enough to have a Meetup or GTUG or > something, you may be able to work out something more peer-to-peer. > You might set it up a bit like "speed dating" -- two people across > from each other swap phones for, say, 15 minutes, collect data on > their apps on the other person's phone, then move to another pairing. > This would reduce the risk of somebody walking off with somebody > else's phone. You might even be able to rig up an app to assign the > pairings/tables in advance, to maximize the range of other devices > each person gets to see. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 2.8 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
