Tuesday February 12, 2008 AOL in the Java ME Mobile World? I thought they were dead...
Hey, isn't AOL that dead company that used to do dial-up Internet for all those poor sods who couldn't afford DSL or cable broadband? Well, looks like they are back now at 3GSM Mobile World Conference in outraaageous Barthelona, Thpain, talking up Yet Another Open Mobile Platform (YAOMP). Ya got your Google Open Handset Alliance, ya got your Open Moko, ya got your LiMo Open Mobile, and now you got your AOHell Open Mobile Platform. Got that straight? No? Me neither! See: Yet Another Open Mobile Platform (YAOMP) Here's a quote: AOL today announced the AOL Open Mobile Platform, which it plans to make available to developers this summer. The new open platform will help stimulate innovation by providing developers with ready access to the tools and source code they need to build and distribute applications across... BREW, Java, Linux, RIM, Symbian, and Windows Mobile.Can't we all jus' get alooong? Java ME technology. Unify. Testify. Satisfy. Come on and satisfy Java ME...
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Bizarre. The announcement is devoid of details and they can't even get their trademarks right (see the FAQ where they write "JavaMe Windows ® Mobile").
Sounds like some kind of runtime scripting engine with declarative UI. Well, not only do we have several of those competing in a saturated market already but AOL's track record in the last 10 years on pretty much anything isn't exactly stellar.
Looks very much DOA to me.
Posted by Terrence Barr on February 14, 2008 at 01:51 AM PST #
Hi Terrence,
They do have some nice Web services available at AOL, so they might be a good portal for API calls into their Web services.
But, I agree there's a saturated market for even this type of approach in the mobile space.
Hinkmond
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on February 14, 2008 at 06:11 PM PST #