On 1 Jul., 14:30, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > Can you define "popular"? Possibly in terms of number of installations? > Thanks. :-)
I can try, although I won't jump on the number bandwagon as I think that's utterly pointless. Most people with J2ME capable phones have never actually run such an application let alone installed a 3'rd part one. So what do I base this on? Well for one thing, rate of adoption and current trends: - Google trends suggest much higher interest than there ever were for JM2E: http://www.google.com/trends?q=J2ME%2C+Android - Amazon lists a total of 36 J2ME books and 16 Android books. Considering J2ME has been out since 2000, Android only since 2008, that amounts to 8 books a year for Android vs. 4 books a year for J2ME. And I have no reason to believe this trend won't continue since: - There are over 20 Android phones coming out this year. - Manufactures won't have to pay for a J2ME license to include Android. - Google provides editor, emulator, debugger - the whole shebang in an easy to use SDK. - No pre-processor required, as the Android spec is less liberal than the J2ME and its idiosyncrasies. - There are already over 5.000 Android applications, I wish I knew how many J2ME apps there are but as usual (same thing happened with the component marked) Sun failed to provide such a collaborative and unifying model. - People coming from J2ME like Android better, because of the powerful yet easy to use API's (component library, SQL datastore etc.). - Android is a superset of J2ME and supports generics etc. making J2ME looking more stale than ever. Do you feel otherwise about J2ME, its achievements and future? /Casper --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
