Comments on: ADC2 User Voting Concludes

By: Steve B

Steve B — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:42:49 +0000

And the official results are here!

http://code.google.com/android/adc/gallery_winners.html

Hit refresh if you get an error, you’ll get it eventually.

By: Furret

Furret — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:08:23 +0000

The think that really suck about ADC 2 in my country (Czech Republic) is, that I really don`t wanna review the app, because it will uninstall itself after that, and because there`s not a paid market here, I won`t get any of these apps or their equivalents from any other developer after the chalange is complete. Some of them are really good. The unpaid market is full of high ranked junk funny stuff.

By: Furret

Furret — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:03:50 +0000

I don`t see any difference. My ADC2 app still gives me the option to review the app I`ve now instaled.

By: mustumasti

mustumasti — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:11:17 +0000

ADC2 software on my phone is gone… Boom… uninstall-ed!

By: SK

SK — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:45:55 +0000

I think the main reason for the lack of interest in ADC2 was that Google forced the order of the apps and what apps a user could try out.

I was getting about 10-15 apps that were useless to me before I got an app that I thought was worth checking out. That’s way too much noise for me to bother with.

Instead, if they had a webpage with app listings, description and screenshots and let the users decide what to try out from the Market then ADC2 would have seen more interest.

They could still have made sure only actual device owners get to decide (if that was their intention with the ADC2 app) by having an app to cast the votes that could check if it’s an emulator or a real phone.

By: Darek

Darek — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:44:02 +0000

“Afterall, there are too many applications on the market to test them all right now!”

I hope google works on browsing the market. Maybe: sort by highest rating, sort by most downloads, most reviews, etc.

Finding new, worthwhile apps seems to be the weakest part of the android market.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:03:27 +0000

“Alas, the final round of judging has concluded. Thanks again for all your reviews. We’ll surely miss you, but you can now go ahead and uninstall this application.”