[ajug-members] new mobile framework?

Steven Guitar stguitar at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 13:34:47 EDT 2011


  i was just about to ask this... targeting an audience is one thing but 
growing a developer community around this will be another.

On 03/16/2011 12:39 PM, Brian Alexander Lee wrote:
> My question is why would someone use this instead of RIM's fairly 
> decent BB sdk?
>
> Also, windows7 phone is pretty enterprisey.
>
> BAL
>
> On Mar 16, 2011, at 12:13 PM, jermel wash <jermel.wash at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jermel.wash at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> I think Pratik hit the nail on the head.  Oracle is definitely aiming 
>> at the corporate market,  most likely the big heavy mobile scanners.  
>> Microsoft has all but abandoned them in a race for positioning in the 
>> consumer market with windows "phone".  After version 6.5 Windows 
>> mobile became windows phone and you cant even use silverlight on 
>> version 6.5 (maybe there is workaround that I am unaware of).  
>> Someone has got to innovate and jme was not getting the job done.  
>> Also some companies are stuck with BB for a few years so why not 
>> vendor lock them in as well.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Steven Guitar <stguitar at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:stguitar at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Yea I hear ya but this is "last years" "Corp" segment. I mean at
>>     some point BB won't be the defacto business standard.
>>
>>     Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>     On Mar 15, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Pratik Patel
>>     <pratik.r.patel at gmail.com <mailto:pratik.r.patel at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>     from the article:
>>>     Currently, Mobile Clients are only available for Windows Mobile
>>>     versions 5 and 6, and Research In Motion BlackBerry devices. The
>>>     framework does not support the iPhone, Android devices or
>>>     Windows Phone 7 devices.
>>>     The Mobile Client costs $5 per user and can be priced per device
>>>     as well.
>>>
>>>     Clearly, they are aiming at the "corporate" market and not
>>>     consumer. Between native and "rich mobile web apps" and the many
>>>     alternatives in-between... well you get the point.
>>>
>>>     On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Vincent Stoessel
>>>     <vincent at xaymaca.com <mailto:vincent at xaymaca.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Oracle releases Java mobile development framework
>>>
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