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 20080820 Wednesday August 20, 2008

Eh-yah, Cahn't get thyah from hyah with an iPhone

Here's an interesting programming contest that bans iPhone and Google Android devices, but instead includes Java ME technology. Hurray! JavaWorld and xconomy.com both pointed out how the recent AT&T "Fast Pitch New England" contest excludes the iPhone and Google Android platforms for consideration. To win their mobile app development contest that lasts until Sept.. 30th, you must live in New England and you must not use a loser device like an iPhone or Google Android (maybe because there are no Android devices! Ya think?) ;-)

See:

AT&T Fast Pitch New England contest bans iPhone & Android

Here's a quote:

 Perhaps eager to remind software 
 developers that the Apple iPhone 
 isn’t the only game in town—or 
 even its only game in town— AT&T 
 is sponsoring a contest for New 
 England-based makers of mobile 
 applications for competing 
 platforms.

 ...AT&T is asking software 
 developers to submit applications 
 that run on the non-Apple devices 
 that the company sells, including 
 those based on the Java, Palm OS, 
 RIM Blackberry, Symbian, and Windows 
 Mobile...
Personally, I'd choose to enter the contest using Java ME technology--much easier and faster to program a cool cell phone app that way. But, I don't live in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Vermont... and most important, I don't like Tom Brady. So, I guess that rules me out. :-)

[Java ME and J2ME] ( August 20, 2008 11:09 AM ) Permalink Comments [2]





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