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20081218 Thursday December 18, 2008

GetJar: 3rd annual mobile awards and Java ME tech's answer to AppStore

Yeah, the iPhone iPhreak fanboys have their AppStore. That's nice. But, getjar.com has been around since 2004 as an awesome AppStore for Jave ME apps for cell phones for 4+ years. They recently announced their 3rd annual Mobile Award winners.

See:

GetJar 3rd Annual Mobile Awards

Here's a quote: 

 GetJar (www.getjar.com), the 
 world's most popular destination 
 for downloading mobile 
 applications, has announced the 
 third annual GetJar Mobile 
 Awards: Google Maps, Opera Mini, 
 scanR, Twitter and Strands Social 
 Player are this year's stars.
Notice how all three Mobile Award winners have Java ME versions. And, notice the winners are not 1990s-style graphics-based games. Some people mistakenly think Java ME technology is just for antiquated games. Bzzzt! Wrong! It's hard to get through some people's skulls that Java ME technology has had getjar.com as its own AppStore delivering to 18 million visitors per month. And, not just games! iPhone is the also-ran in this case.

[Java ME and J2ME] ( December 18, 2008 04:43 PM ) Permalink Comments [1]

Comments:

It's also worth noting that Getjar just released news about Opera Mini hitting 10M downloads on their network. If you check out the leading apps on Getjar you'll notice that a number of these have done 2,3,5+ million plus downloads so far. This is a great sign that Java is alive and well.

Furthermore, it's also worth noting that their downloads are pretty evenly split between WEB / mobile web downloads which highlights that mobile internet users are actually going to the site to get content and not just sideloading. Finally, it's worth saying that the US is now among GJ's top 5 countries in terms of traffic as well. This illustrates that it's not just consumers from emerging markets with low end handsets downloading content. It's the upper segment of the market.

Java content is here to stay and the app store was very real long before Apple diefied it...

Posted by Patrick on December 22, 2008 at 07:00 AM PST #

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