On 16 May 2012 07:48, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. > If by "better quality" you mean "highly directional", then I'm all for it. Anything that means I don't have to endure whatever 5 minute wonder the schoolkids are playing for each other on the bus this week. Better still, why not just remove the speaker entirely and give the thing 5 headphone sockets? And 5 pairs of half decent headphones that don't blast so much of the "music" outwards that I can use shazam to identify what my fellow travellers are listening to? (I'm looking at *you* Apple...) I'd also pay good money for a handset with some sort of EMP capability built in, able to knock out the noisiest devices of everyone else within a 5 metre radius :) > > 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. > > -- Kevin Wright mail: [email protected] gtalk / msn : [email protected] quora: http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Wright google+: http://gplus.to/thecoda <[email protected]> twitter: @thecoda vibe / skype: kev.lee.wright steam: kev_lee_wright "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger" ~ Dijkstra -- 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.
