On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 19:48 -0800, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
> Blackberry takes J2ME seriously? Don't make me laugh.

http://us.blackberry.com/developers/javaappdev/javadevenv.jsp

> First off, blackberry is going down the drain faster than Nokia.
> Perhaps more importantly, even blackberry doesn't believe J2ME anymore
> - they're putting it all on the QNX/PlayBook horse. No j2me in sight.

Blackberry may now be a dying product but it will be around for probably
10 or more years because of the large company install base currently
there.  As every phone company is spotting Java ME / CLDC / MIDP is now
an awful platform.  If they are going to change then fine, but there is
still a large number of phones out there and a lot of internal corporate
projects work with what they have.


On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 19:50 -0800, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
> And to rub in that you're really stuck in a dead end, from another
thread:

Why am I stuck in a dead end for the comments I made, I think you are
over-inferring by a very great amount.   Trainers provide what customers
ask for, even if they want it after advice that they don't want what
they ask for.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-10/rim-is-said-to-plan-playbook-tablet-software-to-run-google-s-android-apps.html

> J2ME: Dead. Android: Where you should be going, pronto.
>

Crikey, and I thought everyone on this list was an iPhone addict doing
Objective-C.

It will be interesting to see if Intel persevere with MeeGo in the phone
space now that Nokia have gone.  Also will Microsoft put enough
marketing into the new Nokia phones to make WP7 a genuine competitor to
iOS and Android.

Of course phones only become really interesting when they have serious
multicore capability to add to the multiprocessors they already have.
And 3-D holographic screens will be mandatory.

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