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Google orders up 1,788 Googlephone apps for just $2,800 apiece

AndroidinAction.jpgThere's no real market for applications written for Google's Android cell-phone operating system — the sad, software-only remnant of the abortive quest for a Googlephone — but Google's trying hard to create an artificial one. Participants in Google's Android Developer Challenge submitted 1,788 Android programs. In May, Google will award 50 semifinalists $25,000 apiece. Eventually Google will pay out $5 million in prizes, or about $2,800 per entry, according to quick bit of math. Why not actually make a Googlephone? That seems easier. (Photo by Kai Hendry)

2:40 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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  • Image of CGrant CGrant at 03:27 PM on 04/21/08
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    i was working on some Android apps but gave up. It's not as fun or worthwhile as developing for the iPhone.

  • Image of jonawebb jonawebb at 08:39 AM on 04/22/08
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    I also did some work on this. I found the development environment to be sort of buggy. I could never get it to read in past byte 8192 of a file. I reported the bug months ago and am still waiting for a fix.
    My feeling is, the project is under-resourced for what they are trying to do. They might have been better off sticking with J2ME rather than going their own way.

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