finalists are already contacted and we are in the "Summer of Slience"
equivalence of ADC1?
On Oct 7, 12:13 pm, Lance Nanek <lna...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recall an email sent during the first challenge where winners of the
> first round were being given a private SDK and chance to update. It
> was frustrating because I'd spent a long time working around bugs in
> the GTalk classes and would have loved to have an updated SDK to work
> with, even if I wasn't in the winning group.
>
> Err, getting to the point, allowing updates at some point in the
> process isn't unprecedented. That said, I notice the terms and
> conditions say "Android 1.5 or higher" in all the judging sections.
> Maybe moving to 1.6 during the process was expected, but the problems
> running 1.5 apps on 1.6 weren't.
>
> On Oct 7, 3:07 am, String <sterling.ud...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Oct 6, 10:33 pm, CraigsRace <craig...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Allowing an app update would go against their own rules, so it would
> > > be very controversial. Having said that, IMO, I wouldn't mind if they
> > > did allow it for broken apps only (which I imagine are only a select
> > > few).
>
> > It could be argued that judging apps on 1.6 is also against their own
> > rules:
>
> > 7. SUBMISSION PERIOD
> > a. SUBMISSION OF ENTRIES: To qualify for a Prize, an "Entry" to the
> > Challenge consists of an original application that is written using a
> > version of the Android Software Development Kit ("SDK") (available athttp://developer.android.com) that validly executes on Android version
> > 1.5.
>
> > Not being in the US, I haven't been able to test my entry against 1.6
> > on an actual device yet, so I don't know if this affects me or not. I
> > agree that this situation has been poorly managed, but acknowledge
> > that Google is balancing competing interests here.
>
> > IMHO, the best situation would be to allow EVERYONE in Round 2 a
> > chance to update their apps. While this would obviously violate the
> > T&C, it's the only way that I can see to keep a level playing field.
> > It also ignores the effect that 1.6 may have had on Round 1, but the
> > overlap there was small enough that such effects were probably
> > minimal.
>
> > Having said that, Google has been largely silent to the other
> > developer concerns about ADC2, so realistically, I don't expect that
> > there will be any acknowledgement of this one either.
>
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