> we sometimes forget how hard it once was for developers to build apps across a wide range of different platforms. I take it you never had the misfortune of

> we sometimes forget how hard it once was for developers to build apps across a wide range of different platforms. I take it you never had the misfortune of developing for J2ME? The blog is laundering history - by severely understating the horror of how it was before: CLDC/MIDP combined with model-specific vendor extensions (E250 would have different packages from other models by the same manufacturer), add non-standardized screen resolution resulted in your apps compatibility matrix having to be in 4-dimensions, at the very least.