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Ask HN: When was J2ME Apps Golden Rush? Success Stories?
- Raed667 9y agoI had a J2ME (now JavaME) module in school, but I guess it was after the rush, because we only found one single Nokia phone that could run our application.
- marktangotango 9y agoThere wasn't one, certainly nothing like the apple App Store success stories you may read about. J2me was in the era when carriers controlled what was allowed on their phones, with an iron fist. Most apps and games came from telecoms, with some popular games ported between phones. Add to that, the phone ecosystem was much more diverse, and the j2me APIs on the phones were buggy and incomplete mostly. It was not a good time be building mobile apps.
- bitfork 9y agoIt was more in the field of microprocessing and like TV setbox what J2ME was successful and to some areas still are