Is taht cost difference to do with Qualcomm's fees or developer time
(or both?)
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Benedict Evans
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On 30 Aug, 2004, at 3:39 pm, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Shawn wrote:
>
>>> BREW is five times faster than Java
>>
>> ...if *true* would be a comparison of handsets without a Java
>> accelerator chip, would it not?
>
> Unless the engineers have gone really nuts with the Java accellerator
> chips, which doesn't seem likely to me, BREW is likely always to be
> faster than Java on the same platform.
>
> Of course, that's still pretty meaningless. There are some other very
> important issues to look at as well, when it comes to any particular
> application:
>
> 1. Does it *need* to be faster? I can't see how my karaoke remote
> control or appli for checking billing would be better if they ran
> "faster." Heck, even my 3-D version of Densha de GO! runs at a
> pretty adequate frame rate.
>
> 2. Are you willing to take the hit on development costs to get the
> advantages of BREW? I would estimate that a BREW application will
> cost you at least five times as much to develop as a similar Java
> application.
>
> cjs
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Received on Tue Aug 31 01:38:09 2004