On Aug 16, 11:59 pm, Miroslav Pokorny <[email protected]> wrote: > J2me was crappy and simple because the phones were crappy and simple. It > would and was hard for all vendors to build anything what we could call > useful and sophisticated. Nobody really used even the native business apps on > those machines. Everything about them was limited and it's no surprise j2me > was aswell.
Yeah, sounds like the thing I just wrote, so +1 I wanted to add an observation ... when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone he gave a quote about skating to where the puck is going. He clearly meant that in his universe the long term future direction is smart phones. I suppose he believes that in time even the feature phones will die off and there will only be smart phones. Google seems to be taking the same directional cue - Android is for smart phones, not feature phones. At an All Hands somewhere during my final months at Sun the marketing guys gave a presentation about market share of different phone types. Of the zillions of phones being sold today, worldwide a humungo ginormous percentage is feature phones. This smart phone market we're arguing over is a sliver of this huge pie. So the marketing guys at Sun at that time said they intended to defend Sun's position of owning the platform which enables creating apps for feature phones (aka Java ME) while offering JavaFX as a way to deliver better apps for that market while ... blah blah blah blah ... In other words, Sun's marketing guys were not taking the same "skate to where the puck is going" directional cue. + David Herron http://davidherron.com -- 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.
