On 02/13/2011 04:50 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
And to rub in that you're really stuck in a dead end, from another
thread:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-10/rim-is-said-to-plan-playbook-tablet-software-to-run-google-s-android-apps.html
J2ME: Dead. Android: Where you should be going, pronto.
I think you know my past idea about JME: old, no long-trem future, but
still relevant for the present and the near future. Until a week ago I
was still going to support it with my mobile developments.
But I change my mind as I see things evolving. In this past week I've
seen Nokia abandoning Symbian and Meego and moving to Windows Mobile. I
don't have understood which technology will be used for development, but
I fear it is Nokia/Windows (as it was Nokia for Meego). Am I right?
Second, I see Blackberry announcing that they will be able to run
Android apps on their new tablet. Doesn't sound enough as the wind
changing directions? It might be a fake announce or such, but if they
can really to run Android apps (and we'll see) I think it's easy enough
to see them extending this feature to their new products. And once one
can develop for RIM both with Android and JME, what do you think most
people will do?
So far, it sounds as the mobile world will essentially be Nokia+Windows
(*), RIM/Android, Apple, Android. J2ME could go away even faster than I
thought. From now on I'm suspending my idea of still supporting it, and
I might decide to definitely drop it in a few months.
Of course, there is still business with JME. Sometimes I'm still asked
for mentoring and teaching about JME. But I've not yet put Android on my
CV, so really I can't compare. Frankly, I think that once I prove I'm
proficient with it I could have as business with Android as I have with JME.
(*) Not even sure about Nokia / Windows to be a serious thing. I mean,
they might be determined in it, but seeing Nokia changing strategy so
many time in the past years tells me that Nokia is panicking. I don't
think it's unlikely that, in case of the market share drop goes on, we
see a replaced management and Nokia saving at least their hw assets by
adopting Android (especially when the Oracle lawsuit is over: I think
that even RIM would have licensed Android if there were no legal issues,
and who knows whether their announcement for supporting Android apps is
just a way for waiting for the end of the lawsuit and then going
straightly towards Android).
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