A lot of us have been through all this once before with J2ME. Take a look at Terrence's blog. It provides a good overview of the current industry: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/2008/01/do_we_need_a_mo.html
Waiting for devices to launch before starting to think about content delivery pushes the small developer out of the picture. Carriers launch, big players set up provisioning, content aggregators become the gatekeepers. In these early stages, we have a chance to organize ourselves. Waiting until the launch of devices to start thinking about it is equivalent to giving up. If we (by we I mean all of us) don't have a large, organized community with content to deliver, what do you think the chances are a carrier is going to allow any non-approved application the "rights" to install other applications? If not zero, then its close to zero. I'm not in this for shits and giggles to form some community. Frankly, I have a lot of communities I'm involved with and adding another one just means I don''t get to sleep as much. I had been in the mobile content and delivery space for five years and it wasn't fun or innovative any more. Android sparked something in me personally. I'm in this now because we missed this opportunity with J2ME and that's why I'm pushing for community involvement in SlideME, that's why I'm trying to clarify why we aren't about searching of content, that there is something beyond that. If you want to see your future if we fail in this, just look back: http://midlet.org/index2.jsp Shane On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Muthu Ramadoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason applications are not getting into SlideME is people are waiting > for Phase I to be over. I'm sure once the challenge gets over and the real > devices are available, lot of developers will be looking at distributing > their apps to the devices. > > If SlideME is what you say it is, then there's no reason SlideME is not > going to take off when the real device hits the market. > > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Shane Isbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > For some reason, I don't think we at SlideME have done a good job > > communicating what we are about. After reviewing a lot of feedback we have > > gotten, it seems that many developers think SlideME is about searching or > > browsing for applications. We are not a database. We are not a baby > > HelloAndroid. We are about stocking and delivery of applications to > > emulators and soon-to-be devices. We deal with the whole work flow of > > getting the application from the developer to the end user, for mobile. We > > are building the server and Android client side components to make this > > happen by the time devices launch at the end of this year. > > > > Shane > > > > > > > > > -- > take care, > Muthu Ramadoss. > > http://mobeegal.in > find stuff closer. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
