To Google: please make your Android strategy win-win, not win-lose.

[Anil]

http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2008/05/to-google-please-make-your-android.html

[ConAim]

Great idea, but then too late at this point.


On May 5, 10:13 am, Anil <anil.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2008/05/to-google-please-make-your-and...

[tberthel]

You were kind of hard on Google.

Although, the list at the end seems to make a good point even though
it's not very realistic.

I think my list would be:

1. Free loaner phones of the first TI phone to Android developers. I
think that would do the trick for poor developers world wide, and
would not cost that much. With 2000 developers at 3 months each you
would need 500 phones. That would cost about 100K.

2. 1K in free AdWords for ADC participants that show AdSense Ads in
their Android Apps. That would cost 1.8 M - AdSense Revenue = ?

[Rui Martins]

It's true that developing for Android had a personal cost for every
developer, but I think that's a compromise that we took by choice, and
we could never assume that we would win.

Most of us may have been naive and think that not so many apps would
be submitted, and hence, our chances would be better, I now I thought
there wouldn't be more than 300 apps, tops, and I was clearly wrong.

A contest is like playing Lottary, we "pay" a price for a chance to
win.
The advantage is that this is not pure luck, like in lottary, we can
help our own luck, by using our skills the best we can.


But the idea of every Android Developer, being offered a discount,
endorsement, or even production cost on an Android Device, would be
sweet !

In fact, we the ADC Developers are the ones which know better the
Android SDK, besides google staff working on it.
So empowering that knowledge would be a smart move, and probably would
yield a few more useful Apps, in the short/medium term.

[Muthu Ramadoss]

1) Allow hosting of projects with an Android component at code.google.com, even if they are
closed source. Presently only open source is allowed.

2) Marketing. Free use of Google Adwords for our android applications for (say) six months.

3) Subsidize handsets to the developer community. They should be at the same price as a
mid-level GSM handset. e.g. $50.

1 is trivial.. doesn't matter.

I support 2 & 3 for sure. Great idea.

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Anil <anil...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2008/05/to-google-please-make-your-android.html

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[Kevin Galligan]

#3 would be pretty sweet.

[Alper Akgün]

what about having an additional 50 winners for a surprise "google special awards"?
this challenge has a a single great win for all of us; muthu  :)
thanks for your ideas making all of us smile, and making the forums joyful, though they are too good to be true..  

[Muthu Ramadoss]

Alper,

This is my single request to Google:

Please conduct Android events all over the world to enable Android developers show case their wares to potential clients.

[wave connexion(BQ)]

I would suggest setting up one or more "extra slots" for the rest of developers in Round 2 besides the 50 winners in Round 1. This would let the community have a chance to participate if they want, give them hope, not only just onlookers or turn to iPhone SDK.

--
BQ

[Anil]

Suppose there were no applications for Android except the usual boring
suite of Google Maps, Mail, Search etc. Then Google would have to hire
developers or outsource development to companies to create new mobile
applications, or buy up mobile companies. It would have been very
expensive for Google. At a minimum, would have cost hundreds of
millions of dollars; instead, it is now a free win for them.