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At a Sprint Developer Platform conference they gave everyone a free Android phone if you attended an Android development workshop - but a requirement to literal
by dotBen 16y ago
At a Sprint Developer Platform conference they gave everyone a free Android phone if you attended an Android development workshop - but a requirement to literally get past the door was that you had to have the Android SDK installed and a "hello world" running on the simulator.
It was amazing to see how many people couldn't get that far... folks who were just cruising for a free phone.
It was also a smart test because it wasn't like an answer to a programming puzzle that could be circulated - you actually had to have this already running (or know how to quickly install it).
- ammmir 16y agoyeah, i remember waiting in that line. everyone wanted the hero and people were frantically installing the SDK while in line.
- nl 16y agoThat's a good idea - but they might want to distribute the SDK on USDB drives beforehand to all attendees. WiFi networks at conferences break often enough without every single person trying to download the SDK at once.