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I don't know where you are located, but in Norway, the "app" market (J2ME apps) was huge. It worked kinda like how the ringtone market worked.
by djxfade 6y ago
I don't know where you are located, but in Norway, the "app" market (J2ME apps) was huge. It worked kinda like how the ringtone market worked.
- skibz 6y agoI had a lot of fun writing J2ME apps on my old mobile phone back then. If I recall, it also used a special version of the JVM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_virtual_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_virtual_machine) known as the KVM.
- Daub 6y agoI am speaking from experience as a consumer.., that the app market was very ‘thin’... difficult to navigate, hard to locate and lacking in variety. But I also have talked at length. With someone who developed apps for phones pre-iPhone. His was a horror story. As I recall (details fuzzy), He had to pay a substantial fee to the carriers in order for his app to be quality reviewed. If it failed, then he would gave to pay again. For each phone they supported, an extra fee was required. Also extra fees for different carriers, even if it was for a device already approved by another carrier. Simply... in the days when the carriers ruled the waves, there was no profit in a healthy app dev community. In the UK, my first experience of a healthy app eco-system came with the dawn of the Palm Pilot.
- djxfade 6y agoI dont think we had such carrier restrictions in Norway. You usually just sent an SMS with a code for which "app" you wanted, was charged on your phone bill for it, and received an MMS with the JAR file ready to go