Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Android apps development Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:10:47 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net bbK/lj5rBHDBdVm5f74SKPbpVw1QgQadIc4ttxu9qqlixegS7xbl4GRUWbOWLx/r9gPv1wrUrWbyb7AhssBsNg== NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 23:10:41 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="XAfy1ZEdgrcciBkM0hJTHbk1K+PXOcxAlb63eF8bBbFkUP6OPsogheARABMir0X/iQTeAYtsHTi2jBAsPyJ3jBo2tuJL9D1wGMdulkKWS/8Rk6T6gOe3zTdlyt4zuCTp"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:qsdRUt8UcmQ+JRql5qvMEInHtVo= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:2780 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. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg