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Monday, February 27, 2006
The mobile client/server paradigm
This MobHappy article analyzes the use of mobile phone applications as frontends to services. I fully agree that's the trend for 2006 and onwards. In most cases the client application will be free, and just an enabler for the service. The client application is there to create an optimal user experience, and optimise the data exchanged with the service.
What I don't agree with is that you need a smartphone for achieving this. Java ME is more than plenty.
Quote: Provide someone an application, and they’ll pay you once. Provide someone a service, and they’ll keep on paying.
Abiro is currently working on an application framework for J2ME that will make developing such client applications a no-brainer, emulating some of the functionality that normally a web browser takes care of under the covers.
3GSM - What All Those New Smartphones Mean, And It’s A Lot at MobHappy
What I don't agree with is that you need a smartphone for achieving this. Java ME is more than plenty.
Quote: Provide someone an application, and they’ll pay you once. Provide someone a service, and they’ll keep on paying.
Abiro is currently working on an application framework for J2ME that will make developing such client applications a no-brainer, emulating some of the functionality that normally a web browser takes care of under the covers.
3GSM - What All Those New Smartphones Mean, And It’s A Lot at MobHappy
