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An evangelist came to my university to try to get the students to make apps. They just wanted to boost their numbers artificially, and they were willing to pay
by cordite 13y ago
An evangelist came to my university to try to get the students to make apps.
They just wanted to boost their numbers artificially, and they were willing to pay hundreds to students for making these crappy things.
- lclarkmichalek 13y agoSimilar experiences here. Our bog standard "write an Android application for an external client" had the strange requirement of "port to Windows 8 Phone" attached to it.
- maaaats 13y agoI have had events like that from all kind of companies, nothing unique about this, and it's certainly not about boosting their numbers. It's about getting students to learn their technologies and then use them later. Blackberry recently paid developers to port apps to their platform. Is that "artificially boosting their numbers", or just smart marketing? I don't see any problems with this.
- eropple 13y agoWhen they literally don't care what the app is (paying a developer $100 for a flashlight app), yeah, it doesn't speak well of their desires to serve their users.
- rbanffy 13y agoI went to a congress, last year, I think, and Microsoft and Nokia representatives came on stage to announce that for every Windows Phone app they got on the store (and they had an expedite process going on during the event), they'd gift a Nokia phone. For many it wasn't clear it would be a Nokia Asha phone, but, still, they got a crapload of young students writing apps for them.