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Re:Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon Update - Two Winners by jcampbell1 on Monday December 02, 2013 @05:10PM (#6836928)
I thought the assertion was their apps were never run. Not that the videos were never watched.
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Re:Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon Update - Two Winners by johnny99 on Monday December 02, 2013 @05:23PM (#6837004)
Right--that's the assertion made is this well-done and damning post:

https://medium.com/hackers-and-hacking/b839268fb82d

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Re:Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon Update - Two Winners by huhtenberg on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @05:25AM (#6839520)
> I quickly checked Testflight and our app data to see if it had been run.

So, the assumption is that judges' computers don't block phone-home and other tracking/analytics services? That'd be a very poor and dangerous assumption to make.

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Re:Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon Update - Two Winners by xauronx on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @01:21PM (#6848913)
Our app created a record in salesforce the first time it's run on any device. No new records. They confirm in their press release that the final 5 were chosen on video/description alone.

"We instructed both our first and second round judges to evaluate the submissions using the apps’ description, screen shots and the demo video using the same four criteria"

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Re:Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon Update - Two Winners by Kudos on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @07:19AM (#6839817)
Testflight is an Android/iOS app analytics tool.
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