Google did give phones away to professors teaching Android, as part of the "Device Seeding Program" that was going earlier in the year. I personally know an Arizona State University teacher who got a dozen Droids for his class (for free).
But, you don't need phones, or a Market account to develop Android apps (as articulated by many of the other posters to this thread). On Oct 3, 12:54 pm, Incognito <[email protected]> wrote: > if you are complaining about $25 dollars then you have more serious issues. > That money is nothing. If you cannot afford the 25 dollards how on earth do > you pay for internet each month or for anything else for that matter? You > really need to find something worthwile to complaing about. > > On Oct 3, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Lance Nanek <[email protected]> wrote: > > His past messages mention potentially selling blood plasma in order to > get enough money to pay for the Market developer account. Maybe that's > where the theorized impression that Google prefers large firms could > come from. I always assumed the charge was intended to prevent people/ > companies from getting an account, spamming to make a little money, > but losing the account in the process, and then getting another > account and repeating the process. > > At least spammers have to pay over and over this way and obtain > different financial details each time. If you are honest, but have > trouble affording it, you only need to earn enough money once. Too bad > the amount can't be based on a person's income, like speeding tickets > and other punishments are in some places, in order to not unduly > burden people with less money. I fired off some PayPal money in case > it can help in this case, but that would be more systematic. > > Maybe some sort of program where students or schools can get accounts > for free would be more practical. That would cover students who don't > have jobs bringing money in constantly at least. I brought up teaching > an Android class to a professor of mine once and she immediately asked > if they'd have to buy a labs worth of phones in order to do it right. > So cost does come up quite quickly when deciding to teach Android or > not. > > Gee, can you tell I'm out of technical posts to read over on the > developers group? > > On Oct 3, 9:04 am, Craigo <[email protected]> wrote: > My take on it was that Google somehow favours large firms that hire > devs on the cheap, over small or independent developers (with good > maths skills). > > Not sure how Onomp gets this impression. > > On Oct 2, 7:31 am, Peter Lairo <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri. 01.10.2010 23:12, Onomp wrote: > > It's more important for the older firms to make money, The same ones > that created huge centralized locations that ushered away the would be > role models in communities for guys like me. For every practical math > oriented person I find out commits suicide, thats 50 phones i'll port > droid on to. > > That didn't make any sense to me. Was that due to a lack of English or > language skills, or was that a phishing attempt via automated > gibberish-generator? I honestly can't tell. > -- > Regards, > > Peter Lairo > > The browser you can trust: www.Firefox.com > Reclaim Your Inbox: www.GetThunderbird.com > > Islam: http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam101/ > Israel:http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths2/ > Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster: http://www.venganza.org/ > Anthropogenic Global Warming skepsis: http://tinyurl.com/AGW-Skepsis > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. -- 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.
