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Android's Final Challenge Winners
- josefresco 18y agoI'm glad to see The Weather Channel didn't receive any money even though they were a finalist. I don't think they need it as much as a small developer bootstrapping their app.
- byrneseyeview 18y agoI'd hope that Google, of all companies, is better than that. "You do better work, but we're looking for someone a little more pathetic" is not going to get them anywhere.
- davidw 18y agoI'm guessing that it would be more a factor of 'bang for your buck'. That money is going to go a lot farther at a startup than at a company worth billions of dollars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmark_Communications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmark_Communications Plus, a weather app is kind of obvious, even if well done.
- goodkarma 18y agoMy favorite of these is "GoCart". I want an Android phone just for this: "GoCart is your shopping cart on-the-go. Users can scan the barcode of any product using their phone’s built-in camera. Once scanned, it will search for all the best prices on the internet and through the inventories of nearby, local stores."
- inovica 18y agoFully agree with you. Some of the apps look great. I bought an iPhone as its the best out there for what I need, but I'd definitely get an Android phone if it proves to be as good. Now I need to find out if there's an app like this for the iPhone. If not, then we should create one!
- comatose_kid 18y agoHow do they get the inventory of nearby, local stores?
- jcl 18y agoI guess one way would be to require the user to type in the price of the object they're reviewing, to seed the database... although that would only work well for a community with a lot of Android cell phones. Now that I think about it, a database telling which products local people are comparing would be pretty valuable to local stores... They might be willing to trade pricing data for search data? Or a "featured" listing position?
- schmylan 18y agoGoCart gets the local prices from the website itself. Several merchants' websites have a "check local inventory" feature where you supply the zip code to get a list of stores. Check out the video at http://www.biggu.com http://www.biggu.com
- elai 18y agoWhat, that Augmented Reality/Google Maps mashup didn't make it? That was 10x more impressive than any app there!
- babul 18y agohttp://twitter.com/sacca/statuses/897820817 http://twitter.com/sacca/statuses/897820817 A lot of these would make great web apps/sites too.
- aschobel 18y agoSome clever ideas in there which shouldn't be too hard to port to iPhone. 1. Port ADC winning entries to iPhone 2. ???? (sell on AppStore) 3. Profit! The share your whiteboard app looks especially cool. http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=39 http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=39