Android Apps Contest Up and Running

Google has released the equivalent ot its XPrize for Android. $10m is up for grabs for developers who have running applications for Android submitted by first week of March. No single entry to win more than $275k. –

he race to develop applications for Google’s new Android mobile phone platform is officially on after ‘cross-platform bugs’ in the submission system were fixed.

Google has allocated $10m to the competition which has been split into two parts. Challenge 1 will be accepting entries until March 3rd with a total prize pool of $5m.

The Android competition is designed to generate lots of apps, not just a few good ones, as the total prize available to any one entry is only $275,000.

A very interesting way to kick start a platform. Usually the IT industry does it by a lot of insider trading. Disciount dollars and free SDK’s and toolkits to committed firms to ramp up for a platform. First time I have seen it open to all comers. A hot shot coder could go from rags to riches with this kind of setup. [And I hope it happens!]

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