Because they opened it and found it to be terrible and a royal mess to set up. (Which is reasonable, given the judging description before the contest opened. It was aimed at quick-and-easy apps, 5 activities and an email later is not 'quick and easy')
I'd personally be more likely to click 'skip' but the app interface does in fact include setup and configuration.. On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Nicholas Albion <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, I seem to have made a fatal mistake of placing a > mandatory user registration form as one of the first Activities. I > only had 50 people actually register (some with fake email addresses > which I'm actually okay with, given the circumstances), and out of > those only 3 or 4 people actually spent longer than a couple of > seconds looking at the application. Only by the 5th Activity does my > application get really interesting (an editable map overlay which can > snap to predefined points) but only those 3 or 4 "judges" would have > even seen that. I'm very disappointed - how can 96 people claim to > have judged my application if they haven't even interacted with it? > >> > About 140 users for ours. I agree it's a pretty small sample, not >> > sure why they couldn't have left the first round open for a while >> > longer. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
