You don't need an employer to do some work.. barely being able to afford a market account, in it self, is my justification for needing a market account.
On Oct 4, 12:37 pm, Mike Wolfson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
