Submitted by Sylvain Wallez (not verified) on Fri, 2008-06-06 00:29.
You are right that WinMo, Android and iPhone lead to a more complex fragmentation since these are different platforms, thus potentially requiring completely separate developments (and Goojet will do that).
My point is that Java was promising WORA, and older J2ME stacks were not delivering on that promise. More recent phones (i.e. 2 or 3 years old) make this less of a concern, but the J2ME industry still lives on the fears and bad habits of problematic early J2ME implementations.
As for willing to support older phones, well, let's just consider that their market share is small and will get smaller and smaller as time goes by.
You are right that WinMo, Android and iPhone lead to a more complex fragmentation since these are different platforms, thus potentially requiring completely separate developments (and Goojet will do that).
My point is that Java was promising WORA, and older J2ME stacks were not delivering on that promise. More recent phones (i.e. 2 or 3 years old) make this less of a concern, but the J2ME industry still lives on the fears and bad habits of problematic early J2ME implementations.
As for willing to support older phones, well, let's just consider that their market share is small and will get smaller and smaller as time goes by.