Comments on: Clearing the path for the apps goldrush http://www.aqa.63336.com/blog/mobile-marketing/clearing-the-path-for-the-apps-goldrush/ Casting an eye on the mobile industry Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:18:14 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Colly http://www.aqa.63336.com/blog/mobile-marketing/clearing-the-path-for-the-apps-goldrush/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Colly Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:43:15 +0000 http://www.aqa.63336.com/blog/?p=207#comment-40 Eddie, The write once run anywhere promise was always flawed since you really have to deal with different GUIs if you want to develop a good product. However dealing with GUIs only represents 10% of the effort in developing an application. The biggest effort is learning the SDK and tools. The Java VM is a big winner here as it is a well established platform running on billions of mobile phones. Eddie, The write once run anywhere promise was always flawed since you really have to deal with different GUIs if you want to develop a good product. However dealing with GUIs only represents 10% of the effort in developing an application. The biggest effort is learning the SDK and tools. The Java VM is a big winner here as it is a well established platform running on billions of mobile phones.

]]> By: Eddie McNeil http://www.aqa.63336.com/blog/mobile-marketing/clearing-the-path-for-the-apps-goldrush/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Eddie McNeil Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:00:42 +0000 http://www.aqa.63336.com/blog/?p=207#comment-37 Great comments Colly. Insightful as always. The question I've always asked myself is why there has never been a competitor to the J2ME strategy of write once run anywhere. Ok in the earlier days of mobile apps it was a case of maturity in the ISVs and the development and reduction of fragmentation in the platforms such as Java ME. It looks like the Java community is coming together to solve this. However, with so many ISVs that have multi OS and multi platform products I'm very surprised that no one has come to market with an abstracted product that enables an easy to use , cross platform, application environment for ISVs. I'm sure that there are companies that use various solutions or techniques to achieve this so why have these not matured into a product of their own ? Timing , technology, resource, adoption ? Perhaps adoption is a big barrier since J2ME promised so much but in reality failed to deliver the business promise. Great comments Colly. Insightful as always. The question I’ve always asked myself is why there has never been a competitor to the J2ME strategy of write once run anywhere.
Ok in the earlier days of mobile apps it was a case of maturity in the ISVs and the development and reduction of fragmentation in the platforms such as Java ME. It looks like the Java community is coming together to solve this.

However, with so many ISVs that have multi OS and multi platform products I’m very surprised that no one has come to market with an abstracted product that enables an easy to use , cross platform, application environment for ISVs.
I’m sure that there are companies that use various solutions or techniques to achieve this so why have these not matured into a product of their own ?
Timing , technology, resource, adoption ?

Perhaps adoption is a big barrier since J2ME promised so much but in reality failed to deliver the business promise.

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