At 10:52 03/04/11 +0900, you wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, tek1 wrote:
>
> > Unbelievable.
>
>I don't see why.
Even with obfuscation and downloading text and graphics to storage, 30K is
not a lot to work with for a complex application that has to make up for
the inadequacies of MIDP (i.e. no double/float usage) and that tries to
have maintainable, object-oriented code.
Also, Docomo increased the application size from 10K->30K in going from the
503i->504i. One would think that they would have increase the size again,
especially with the competition (JPhone and AU) and the rest of the world
that follows the MIDP1.0 standard offering 50K+. The Nokia7210 is 64K and
MotorolaT720 is 100K.
I think that developers, when given a choice between DoCoMo (Japan only;
70% market share; 30K app size; proprietary MIDP) and the rest of the world
(AU, JPhone, Europe, the Americas, Korea, China, etc.; 50K+ app size;
MIDP-standard), that developers will go with the latter first and then for
DoCoMo later. DoCoMo's strategy was ok, so long as the rest of the world
didn't have many Java-capable devices, but DoCoMo will need to increase the
app size significantly and either 1) offer many more features than the MIDP
standard in its proprietary MIDP-like platform, or 2) adopt the MIDP
standard. Otherwise, they risk "losing" the applications created by
talented developers in other countries around the world. AU and JPhone
won't have this problem, as the only porting issues that developers in
other countries would face would be the (fairly easily-handled) Japanese
language issues, and not the more difficult programming language
differences (MIDP->DoJa). It will interesting to see what happens with the
506i series. :)
Received on Fri Apr 11 09:28:20 2003