I can agree with everything in this post you've said here other than money not attracting talent.
I really like Android and want it to succeed. I think things will get much better once its on more providers and more phones. My .02. ;) On Apr 22, 8:18 pm, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > BTW, I do live in reality, at least my reality. I currentlly do make > a living doing Android development, more on the business/OEM side of > things. The consumer market has never been much of a way to make a > living for embedded apps, and I don't think that will change much. > I think people were just being delusional if they thought they could > quite their job and make a living publishing on the app store. I do > have an app published, and I have some more in the pipeline, I'm > basically just writing apps that I like, and that I will use. If some > one else wants to give me a bit O' beer money for my app, that would > be cool. I started doing embedded apps as more of a hobby, so I find > the current gold rush quite amusing. I do think the lack of $$ will > scare off the chuffers, which is not a bad thing. Too say that money > attracts talent, is not correct, it is the 'talented' people on Wall > Street who were attracted to money, that have created the current > economic crisis. The lure of easy money tends to attract greedy > shallow and itenerate people. Talented people need to get paid well, > but they are motivated by a lot more than money. Anyhow would love to > pontificate more, but must write more Android code now. > > M > > On Apr 22, 5:49 pm, BikingBill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Also, I clearly stated that most likely it was T-Mobile that > > prevented "operator billing" from happing on Android. Originally that > > was the plan. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
