> Perhaps in our countries, where we spend big $$ on "smart" phones this may be > so...but we aren't the majority of phone users globally.
I know that here in Argentina a lot of people prefer Blackberrys to at least medium-line Android phones, but more out of habit than anything, and the collective noun for smartphones seems to be 'Blackberrys', no matter the manufacturer or OS. Which throws me every time. In fact when I got my Samsung device it was 2/3 the price of the cheapest Android, bought on a contract, despite to my eyes at least, being 100 times better, so I guess either they can't sell Android devices and push the price down to get rid, or they push the BlackBerry prices up according to demand, or a combination of both. Whole groups of friends organise events using BlackBerry Messenger, and people relying on the cross-manufacturer equivalent, WhatsApp, often find themselves missing some information. I'm not sure RIM should even try to compete with Apple and Android like-for-like. Something new is needed, such as those magical unfolding screens that always seem to be in the late prototype phases, decent quality speakers on which bass can actually be heard, tactile feedback from the screen so you can feel the edge of a button, more accurate touch (fingernail?) so that UIs don't have to have comically large buttons to be reliable, etc. On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Steven Siebert <[email protected]> wrote: > This months Java Magazine has a relevant article on JavaME ( > http://www.oraclejavamagazine-digital.com/javamagazine/20120506?sub_id=EoA81h7GiCiZ#pg17 ). > This article at least provides anecdotal evidence that Oracle or the global > telecom industry is seeing the near demise of JavaME. Perhaps in our > countries, where we spend big $$ on "smart" phones this may be so...but we > aren't the majority of phone users globally. > > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 19:19 -0300, Ricky Clarkson wrote: >> > Even BlackBerry (well, RIM) are going to leave Java behind, though I >> > have >> > to say what Google did is awful for people stuck on a J2ME device for >> > the >> > forseeable future. >> >> It will be interesting to see what all the companies I did Java ME >> training for last year and previously so they could build corporate >> Blackberry apps are going to do now that both Java ME and Blackberry are >> going down the pan. >> >> -- >> Russel. >> >> ============================================================================= >> Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: >> sip:[email protected] >> 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] >> London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "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.
