Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 12th Jun 2007 01:16 UTC
When Steve Jobs mentioned a few weeks ago that there will be "some sort of app development" for the iPhone, everyone assumed he meant widgets. Widgets are less powerful than native applications, and depending on the underlying OS hooks offered, they can be even less powerful than J2ME apps. But when Jobs came out today to outright sell us Web 2.0 and said that "no SDK required", I felt cheated.
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Do they really want applications? What applications? A map, for instance?
Games. Without J2ME support they are missing out on a huge opportunity. Especially considering that every other phone out there, even the very cheapest ones, support this.
How on earth Steve got it into his head that J2ME support will somehow make the phone crash is beyond me.
...Of course, how one would control those games, without having any hardware buttons to control them, is another question.
Edited 2007-06-12 10:35
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Maybe. But users want applications. You highly disregard this.
I suggest you go read my archives of my blog. There, you will find information about my brother, an honest working electrician, who shun away the Linux touchscreen "wow-your-friends" cellphone I sent him last year because it wouldn't run any third party native apps (Motorola wouldn't release their SDK). Additionally, my brother can not afford to pay for GPRS and doesn't have WiFi at home (DSL is very expensive in Greece). In that respect, the iPhone is a worse phone for him than the Motorola Linux one was, as the iPhone can't even run J2ME, let alone native apps or Widgets.
Don't underestimate what people need these days.