You were talking about why developers, and Google in particular, might or might not target JavaME. I'm telling you why. Google is practical and targets large markets, so they build JavaME clients. A much better question is why does Google target the iPhone which has such a small marketshare. Probably because they see it growing into something much bigger.
The Symbian blog you sent is accurate. MIDP 3.0 hasn't gone well and the JavaME market is fragmenting. If only there were a new platform that would smooth out the differences of JavaME implementations and let developers code at a higher level. A modern 21st century platform with modern tools, but that leveraged existing code and runtimes. Hmm. If only. :) On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Casper Bang wrote: > > I give up, seems like everyone equates popularity with potential > marked share regardless of how many actually USES their Symbian phone > for anything but calls and messages (I have yet to meet one). I think > it's naïve to care only for such a marketing metric, but if that's > your definition of popularity then so be it. :) > > /Casper > > On 1 Jul., 17:51, Joshua Marinacci <jos...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Pointing out that Google also targets J2SE doesn't prove much, given >>> that they are also more than willing to make Obj-C clients for the >>> iPhone and other non-J2ME devices. Google is just like that, they go >>> after the marked and tries to win the hart of users regardless of >>> underlying technology. >> >> Yes, that is exactly my point. Google is pragmatic. JavaME may not >> be >> hot or exciting, but it has the numbers, so Google ships apps for it, >> and the probably will for a long time. I don't disagree that >> platforms other than JavaME are growing and more exciting, especially >> as smartphones grow to be a major portion of the market, but I want >> to >> dispel the myth that Android (or iPhone, or Palm, etc) have more >> marketshare than JavaME. They don't. Smartphones collectively still >> have less than 5% of the market. If you want volume today, it's >> JavaME. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
