Comments on: Android Developer Challenge 1: Where are they now? http://androidbloke.co.uk/2009/07/15/android-developer-challenge-1-where-are-they-now/ Google Android Phone News and Reviews Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:54:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Android UK http://androidbloke.co.uk/2009/07/15/android-developer-challenge-1-where-are-they-now/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Android UK Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:25:13 +0000 http://androidbloke.co.uk/?p=147#comment-18 Hi Carl, I see your side of it, and perhaps its a case of being a "glass is half full" or half empty. My thoughts behind this is that the finalists were given such a great cash injection that they could potentially become full time android coders and build and develop their application into something amazing. Whether its the end user not agreeing with the ADC judges on what were the best apps or the fact that some of the apps were left to rot after the competition.; I thought we would have had a higher hit rate and much more of them in the top 20 after a year. Perhaps Google should have timed released the money, based on continued development. I think it would be interesting to see how the users review ithe appsin the new ADC when it starts.-- and produce more top 20 apps this time next year. Hi Carl,
I see your side of it, and perhaps its a case of being a “glass is half full” or half empty. My thoughts behind this is that the finalists were given such a great cash injection that they could potentially become full time android coders and build and develop their application into something amazing. Whether its the end user not agreeing with the ADC judges on what were the best apps or the fact that some of the apps were left to rot after the competition.; I thought we would have had a higher hit rate and much more of them in the top 20 after a year.
Perhaps Google should have timed released the money, based on continued development.

I think it would be interesting to see how the users review ithe appsin the new ADC when it starts.– and produce more top 20 apps this time next year.

]]> By: Carl http://androidbloke.co.uk/2009/07/15/android-developer-challenge-1-where-are-they-now/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Carl Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:09:36 +0000 http://androidbloke.co.uk/?p=147#comment-17 Interesting data. My conclusion would be quite different; something like: The ADC was an amazing success! 5 of the 10 finalists are still in the top 100 apps! The factors you say made the ADC "doomed to fail" are why I would have expected that quite possibly none of the apps would still be around a year later. I don't know what Google thought, but I (as an outsider) thought of the ADC as a way to generate buzz and cool tech demos. If the ADC generated not only buzz and tech demos, but also 5 applications that are still being used by many people, then that seems like an amazing success to me. Interesting data. My conclusion would be quite different; something like:

The ADC was an amazing success! 5 of the 10 finalists are still in the top 100 apps!

The factors you say made the ADC “doomed to fail” are why I would have expected that quite possibly none of the apps would still be around a year later. I don’t know what Google thought, but I (as an outsider) thought of the ADC as a way to generate buzz and cool tech demos. If the ADC generated not only buzz and tech demos, but also 5 applications that are still being used by many people, then that seems like an amazing success to me.

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