[PD] DIY GSoC: getting those projects done

[dmotd]

hmm.. now i would have thought that with google investing a great many 
resources into mobile technology, ie. their first real attempt at killing off 
the competition (apple) with their phone architecture (android), and with the 
relative success of rjdj for the (apple) iphone, they would be rushing at the 
opportunity to port a 'killer app' to their gadget and supporting the 
environment that harbours this app (pd). afterall the frivolous world of 
consumer gadgets requires that users have access to lovely toys that do the 
things which make those consumers like the gadget enough to warant spending 
the cash in the first place (no decent software, no gadget, no matter 
how 'cool', nerdy or utilitarian the thing is in the first place).

to be even more cynical, i would suggest that if the application was rewritten 
to suggest a focussed effort at making pd/rjdj support android and that 
the 'other' modifications fell under this umbrella project we may have stood 
a better chance. but this is all rather hypothetical and would require 
playing silly games with a corporate monolith. 

or perhaps a company that relies so heavily on string manipulation considered 
pd useless? ;)

ciao
dmotd

On Monday 23 March 2009 23:03:55 Chris McCormick wrote:
> Yo,
>
> IIRC, one of their complaints from last year was that our application had
> too many parts. Next time we should pick just one or two specific tasks and
> go with them. Maybe with a community vote or whatever. Also, I hate to be
> cynical, but I can't see any way even remotely in which Google could use Pd
> to make a profit. ;) Thanks for your huge effort anyway, Hans and Georg.
>
> Best,
>
> Chris.