You forgot one thing, perhaps its biggest attraction[1]: 'Every Android application runs in its own process, with its own instance of the Dalvik virtual machine. Dalvik has been written so that a device can run multiple VMs efficiently.'
1 http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html On Jul 1, 3:08 pm, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
