On 16 Feb., 17:59, Alexey <[email protected]> wrote: > Think about it, Apple single-handedly made regular consumers aware of > and _expect_ availability of good third-party software for their cell phones.
+1 Whether like like, don't care or hate Apple - you benefit from them: They forced everybody else to care about developers, software devlopment, software distribution, media play and web browsing on phones. Without them, you'd be writing JavaME apps on a Nokia or Windows Mobile phone, trying to get different GPS stacks to work on different JavaME stacks on hundreds of vastly different phones, submitting your apps in multiple languages to dozens of mobile carriers around the world for approval. For Carriers in Q4/09, smartphones made up 40-60% of all phones sold, which is good news for developers because feature phones are now officially dead for mainstream mobile development (except for developing markets). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
