> You say you're seeing a lot: what does joe the average do with them? Email, browsing, yellow-pages, stocks, currencies, TV-guide etc., much the same as I see for the iPhone (but don't see for Nokia's). You raise an interesting aspect though, of the few J2ME applications I have run into in the wild, exactly as you mention have all been silly little games for teenagers that came with the phone such as not to appear empty. But that doesn't strike me as a particular convincing definition of popularity.
Perhaps I'm wrong and there's a thriving multi-million $ marked with lots of companies, developers and applications - but if there are, I just haven't noticed in spite of having a Nokia the last 10+ years. Perhaps we should resume this thread in 6-12 months, when it's possible to talk installation count and usage cap. because I think this is a dead end. :) /Casper On 2 Jul., 07:53, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > Casper Bang wrote: > > See that's because you equate popularity with runtime distribution > > count, which is a red herring. > > Casper, please don't assert I'm saying things that I'm not saying :-) > Let's talk about USE, but explain how it's possible that people feel > most popular a thing that most of them have never seen. Installations > clearly plays as a cap for use. > > All the remainder of your post is conjugated at the future: "is starting > to", "are starting to"... It seemed clear to me that I'm talking about > PRESENT, since your original statement is "JME _is_ not popular". I have > clearly said in my previous email that things will evolve and could > evolve in various ways, including yours. > > For what concerns use, joe the average uses to play and chat. Not > everybody is an engineer or a business manager. And most of mobile phone > users are teenagers. In my understanding, the largest number of games > for mobile phones are made in Java. But let's talk about Android use. > You say you're seeing a lot: what does joe the average do with them? > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/blog > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it - mobile: +39 348.150.6941 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
