[android-challenge] Re: Gosh ! I Lose even with Mrs.Cookie and Mr.Weather ! - javqui - com.googlegroups.android-challenge

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Subject:	[android-challenge] Re: Gosh ! I Lose even with Mrs.Cookie and Mr.Weather !
From:	javqui (blic...@gmail.com)
Date:	05/15/2008 07:15:27 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.android-challenge

Everybody talk about cooking, weather, call-a-cab, etc.

My motive to cry: Dyno. See my comments yesterday on groups.google.com/group/android-challenge/browse_thread/thread/ bf2d9a34f33bac58/ba681f0f90959b45

I discard the option to submit a dyno app due the very low innovation and potential patent infringement (many similar products on market for PDA and laptops) www.google.com/patents?id=-vyjAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&dq=11/591,027

Or search in Google for patent application# 11/591027 (This isn’t the final patent yet, is the publication for examination)

..... 21) Appl. No.: 11/591,027 ( 22) Filed: Nov. 1, 2006 Related U.S. Application Data ( 63) Continuation-in-part of application No. 11/265,707, filed on Nov. 1, 2005. ( 60) Provisional application No. 60/624,210, filed on Nov. 1, 2004. Provisional application No. 60/732,579, filed on Nov. 1, 2005. Publication Classification (51) Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2006.01) (52) U.S. Cl .... 701/1 (57) ABSTRACT A device and corresponding method for enabling a user to accurately control, monitor, and evaluate performance of a vehicle. A portable programmable computer device that a user can readily plug into a diagnostic connector port of the vehicle for providing the controlling, monitoring, and evaluating functions. Accurate detection of the start time of first movement of the vehicle is made based on data from an accelerometer, independent of the onboard diagnostic system and its diagnostics port. A clock is started for measuring time such that the precise time taken to reach the time- stamped first velocity value from the engine computer via the diagnostic port is determined. Data from the accelerometer and diagnostic port is analyzed and selectively used for accurately and reliably correcting for errors in velocity data from the onboard diagnostic system including latency error and errors due to the vehicle exhibiting wheel spin.

Honestly, I think patent infringement will not be a problem with some additional work, but where is innovation?, the number one criteria.

Other examples:

Ported to android with better graphics and basic database of drag, weight, etc. Software runs in several platforms (including cellular and Smartphone platforms) www.nology.com/pdadyno.html

$199 version with dedicated accelerometers. www.gtechpro.com/ss.html

Check the adc pdf screenshots

It was my fault, I misunderstood the concept and I use the wrong strategy. A little sad, sorry.

On May 15, 9:13 pm, ajd <domi...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On May 15, 5:16 pm, "Finn Kennedy" <finn...@gmail.com> wrote:

For all of you that are belittling Cooking Capsules (hope I got the name right), why don't you take a good look at the winning list.

1) Very few applications do not have clones on the list. 2) A lot of the applications on there are existing ideas ported to Android.

In my opinion cooking capsules is a good choice for multiple reasons:

1) It ties together several different tasks to make them simpler and easier to organize. 2) It is actually unique on the winning list. 3) The overarching goal of the ADC is to help sell phones, and cooking capsules appeals to a different segment of the population. To make Android very successful it has to have applications for non techies.

Your list was not the official criteria for judging. If it was then the cooking app should really won.

For the sake of full disclosure, I like to cook, but I hate shopping. But, there is nothing more I hate than coming back from the store to realize I forgot to buy something on the recipe. I also like trying out new recipes. Being able to use my phone while in the store to both figure out what I want to make and to check off the ingredients would be great.

Okey you like to cook, just like the judges who declared the cooking app a winner.

Finn

P.S. Ask yourself if you would have had the same problems with ADC had the judges realized how super cool your app was and you had won. Perhaps your application was not good or hard to test, you knew this was a content by non-technical judges so you should have prepared for it. D.S.

I did not submit an application but I still think the cooking app, and the other apps as MyCloset, weather channel app, carbon emission calculator, call-a-cab, should not fare well against the originally given criteria.