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On 04/02/2011 07:06 PM, Tom Anderson wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Lew wrote:
>
>> From a pragmatic standpoint, Android is a lucrative gold-rush land for Java
>> developers,
>
> It is? Is anyone making serious P from Android apps? I know a few people
> involved in iPhone apps; none of them have made more than beer money (well,
> champagne money, perhaps) from apps they've written themselves, and one who's
> contracting to write apps for companies is not exactly coining it in. Those in
> my professional circle sweating away in the e-commerce contracting mines are
> certainly commanding higher day rates. I can't imagine Android apps are much
> different.
>
>> but one must strive mightily to succeed over the herd of other prospectors
>> staking Android claims in dreams of easy riches.
>
> Ah - is your metaphor that many will pan the rivers in vain, but the lucky few

There will be rumors of the lucky few, but yes.

> will hit paydirt and become so rich they're paying for the finest floozies in
> Sacramento with bags of gold dust? Again, has anyone actually achieved this? I

The opportunities for enrichment are similar to those in and around Sutter's 
Mill, California, in 1849.

> suppose Roxio probably have; i don't know how much of that money is going to
> developers rather than some kind of suited people. Apparently a chap called
> Yong Zhang has made a colossal amount of money from a range of emulators for
> old video game consoles. Anyone else?

If you want to work for a company that develops for Android, it would be nice 
to have the skills.

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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