To keep everyone in the loop, I wanted to mention more details about the SlideME launch.
First, I'll go down and pick up a G1 from retail on the 22nd. I'll run SAM on it and make sure everything looks okay. Then sometime on the 22nd, we will do a soft (or beta) launch, meaning we won't advertise to the general user community, although of course we expect users from day one. Instead, I will ping this list, telling developers where to download SAM. You can download to either the G1 or to your emulator. For the next 7-10 days, you can test out SAM, report bugs, give feedback. You will also be able to see how your descriptions look, make any changes to the catalog data, test out your application. If you have a paid app, you will be able to mark it with a price. It will show up in the catalog, but will not be downloadable until we enable billing. Expect fairly frequent updates to the client during the first 7-10 days. After the beta launch looks good (7-10 days), we will release the first version non-beta version of SAM, which includes billing. At this point, we expect releases to slow down and we will start advertising to the general user community and some of you can start getting paid. This 7-10 days will also give developers time to fix their apps before the heavy traffic starts coming in. I'm also pleased to say that we will be releasing SlideVille fairly soon as well: http://slideme.org/slideville. Users will be able to view the SlideME catalog, purchase applications and sync to their G1 device, all from their desktop. I'll ping the list with more details on SlideVille as they become available. Thanks and good luck to everyone, Shane --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
