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There is no mobile platform even in Asia
Read the whole thing. Sad but true. I really want Nokia to be the mobile platform of choice, but J2ME just doesn't cut it (and neither does PalmOS). Maybe Python or flash or Laszlo or ...? I'd like Nokia or somebody besides Microsoft to have a viable mobile platform and developer community. Peace, love and open media to Bryan from Vancouver!
From The Life of Bryan: Update from Bangkok.:
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I've come to realize that mobile media is a joke. Carrier data fees are out to lunch, J2ME is a development nightmare and every manufacturer adheres to a slightly different official standard. Last year we were amazed at how many people in Asia were constantly playing with their phones, however within days of arriving in Bangkok back in June we immediately noticed that very few people were doing anything with their smart phones beyond voice and texting. Mobile games and video are advertised, nobody seems to be buying/playing.
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Peace, love and open media
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re: There is no mobile platform even in Asia
Roland: "and neither does PalmOS"
I've always disliked Palm, but I'm in love now. I carry around at least three hours of DVD video on my Treo, as well as a few hours of music and a couple shows pulled off my TiVo. With, I might add, enough room left on a 1GB SD card to store a couple thousand cam photos.
I'll take that over any form of pay-to-play, pixellated streaming video that anyone has on offer.
re: There is no mobile platform even in Asia
Nokia may be moving toward Linux as their platform of choice. It would be nice if they got rid of Symbian! Then there would be a ton of applications available.
re: There is no mobile platform even in Asia
I am not sure if this is something you are looking for but check this out: http://12wap.net. It is Asian, it is built on a flatform for developing mobile community applications.
e.g. http://www.12wap.net/cos/o.x?c=/nlhub/profile&id=1
re: There is no mobile platform even in Asia
I totally agree Roland and Bryan, it would be great to have a universal development platform for mobile. This is the single biggest business obstacle with http://www.litefeeds.com A small mobile start-up cannot develop their appplication on every platform/toolkit out there and even if they could they still have no distributuion or guarantee that their app will work on all the walled-garden networks. That is why you see all these simple SMS/WAP businesses which are not compelling but at least avoid the access/platform problems. I agree that Java is not great but it is the best choice right now since it covers the most ground. At the same time these problems are what give the mobile space such potential and creates a great challenge/opportunity for developers like us.
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