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Friday, August 18, 2006
Taking the Flash Lite challenge
Mobile Games Blog challenges its readers to come up with arguments for or against Flash Lite. I posted a comment that I also include here, slightly edited:
One thing that might not be known to all is that Flash Lite can also be used for more useful applications that communicates over the bearer etc. See e.g. this thread at J2ME Forums.
As Flash Lite is only provided by one entity there's a big chance implementations of Flash Lite will be considerably less fragmented than ditto for Java ME.
I don't look very positively at Sun's open source intentions with Java ME (rather they should take over the responsibility for Java ME deliveries completely), as that will make it even more fragmented, and Flash Lite then has all possibilities to become the choice for graphics-intensive phone applications.
For sure, Flash Lite needs to get implemented in phones too. Java ME exists in approx 1 billion phones by now, so there's a lot of catching up to do.
Mobile Games & Gaming Blog: Open Discussion: The future with Flash Lite
One thing that might not be known to all is that Flash Lite can also be used for more useful applications that communicates over the bearer etc. See e.g. this thread at J2ME Forums.
As Flash Lite is only provided by one entity there's a big chance implementations of Flash Lite will be considerably less fragmented than ditto for Java ME.
I don't look very positively at Sun's open source intentions with Java ME (rather they should take over the responsibility for Java ME deliveries completely), as that will make it even more fragmented, and Flash Lite then has all possibilities to become the choice for graphics-intensive phone applications.
For sure, Flash Lite needs to get implemented in phones too. Java ME exists in approx 1 billion phones by now, so there's a lot of catching up to do.
Mobile Games & Gaming Blog: Open Discussion: The future with Flash Lite
