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I thought the assertion was their apps were never run. Not that the videos were never watched.

• johnny99 13y ago
  Right--that's the assertion made is this well-done and damning post: https://medium.com/hackers-and-hacking/b839268fb82d https://medium.com/hackers-and-hacking/b839268fb82d
  • huhtenberg 13y ago
    > I quickly checked Testflight and our app data to see if it had been run. So, the assumption is that judges' computers don't block phone-home and other tracking/analytics services? That'd be a very poor and dangerous assumption to make.
    • Kudos 13y ago
      Testflight is an Android/iOS app analytics tool.
    • xauronx 13y ago
      Our app created a record in salesforce the first time it's run on any device. No new records. They confirm in their press release that the final 5 were chosen on video/description alone. "We instructed both our first and second round judges to evaluate the submissions using the apps’ description, screen shots and the demo video using the same four criteria"