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Does anyone care about MIDP3.0 any more? It has been a year since IBM's eal with Sprint to launch a J2me CDC runtime called titan with ERCP which was tosave us from big bad MIDP3.0 and Android/iPhone. almost two years since the OHA version of Mobile Java launched with Android and stil not JCP activity from OHA or even to counter it.
Comments from Sun on JavaFX Mobile highlighted by this article, highlight the problem. Mobile is not f'n' dekstop! Nokia, Moto, and etc tried that gambit with w3c mobile widgets and it did not work. Mobile web users want web applicaiotns integrated with their mobile activities! A large part can be integrated in Google Latitidue ways with their web activities but that is not the onoy way to integrate with mobile activities.
On top of that you have the value proposition to Mobile Operators that an influx of applications will sell the Mobile Platform. The Web 2.0 coders do not want to learn J2ME MIDP 2.0 or MIDP 3.0 to drive that transition or another patch on that big sore with JavaFX, Web 2.0 devloeprs want to be able to take their skills and have away toi access GPS via javascript and other device features.
2009 is the first year that smart phone device sales will reach 1 billion device units. That demand is driven by always-on-web feature evident in so many Mobile Platforms that have been re-implemented towards that goal such as Symbian, LiMO, iPhone, Android, PalmPre/WebOS, and etc. It is give us Mobile Web Integrated with mobile device features such as GPS or go the f'n' home!
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