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By alblue
via roughlydrafted.com
Published: May 13 2007 / 11:35

At its JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco, Sun unveiled software for mobile phones that a number of writers heralded as a new competitor to Apple's iPhone. Should Apple be scared?
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alblue replied ago:

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I love this part ...

"Despite its promise to enable ‘write once, run everywhere’ mobile software for all phones, J2ME is really better described as ‘write once, debug everywhere, sell nowhere.’ "

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bloid replied ago:

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apart from (of course) the many places where it does and has sold...

The "debug everywhere" bit is a complete PITA though... Having a specification made up of component parts that phone providers can "cherry pick" from has ended up being a total nightmare...

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