Wednesday September 17, 2008 Google Mobile Maps team hearts Java ME technology
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While one end of the Googleplex campus in Mountain View, Calif. toils on the vapor-phone we know as Android, the other (more lucrative) end of the Googleplex effortlessly works on Google Mobile Maps written in... (wait for it)... Java ME technology for BlackBerry phones and billions of other Java ME technology-enabled phones. Talk about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. The right hand should have told the left hand to use 100% Java ME technology on Android for ubiquity (portable to many more phones than just the lonely yet-to-be-released HTC Dream) and easier to program with all the JSRs and functionality that enables Google Mobile Maps to work oh-so-well. Just ask the Google Mobile Maps team! Or watch this video...
Google hearts Java ME technology See, that little stick figure guy is loving it! Java ME technology (and Google Mobile Maps) gets you up and running (or back to biking) in no time. Sweet! |
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Sweet. Right and left hand. Reminds me some of my experiences... However it seems to be common problem. There is lot of innovations in different companies but sometimes strange messages come out form the same company.
Posted by Lukas on September 17, 2008 at 05:00 PM PDT #
Sorry to rain on your parade Hinkmond but I think Google decided to build their own OS after actually creating mobile applications themselves and realising how difficult it is too build *professional* applications on the current selection of mobile runtimes, Java ME included. Any applications they build are about their commitment to the end user rather than the platform they are built with. As to Android being a "vapour-phone" well that's a fairly silly criticism as we will see Android handsets soon enough. I am not sure what all the sarcastic comments about your competitors are meant to accomplish but they certainly doesn't engender developers to your cause. Quiet the opposite in fact.
Posted by Jason on September 19, 2008 at 06:37 AM PDT #
Hi Jason,
No criticism meant, just a lighthearted reality check. Having peer reviews and sanity tests are good for testing whether a theory is sound. It's good scientific method and the way of Socrates (healthy debate) that gets to the truth. I'm sure when the Android handset (HTC Dream) finally does come out in mid-Oct it will spur the Mobile Industry to do more advanced things on cell phones. So, that's a good thing for the whole industry, Java ME tech included.
Remember, my is blog meant for entertainment purposes with some information bias toward Java ME thrown in for good measure. No agendas here (other than that). ;-)
Hinkmond
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on September 19, 2008 at 07:44 AM PDT #