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Mobile phone platforms are reverting back to the pre-iOS/Android reality where you have to jump through tons of hoops to even make an app let alone run a viable
by zappb 1y ago
Mobile phone platforms are reverting back to the pre-iOS/Android reality where you have to jump through tons of hoops to even make an app let alone run a viable business with it.
- IshKebab 1y agoI don't recall having to send government ID to any companies to publish MIDlets back in the day. I just uploaded them to getjar.
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- lykahb 1y agoI have good memories about a website with ELF's for the Siemens phones. Its name had "kebab" in it. By any chance, was it you running it?
- int_19h 1y agoAFAIK in some countries (US?) phones were usually sold locked in a sense that you could only install J2ME midlets published by your mobile provider, who'd nickel and dime both users and devs for the privilege.
- const_cast 1y agoIt feels like US companies have long given up the pursuit of new innovations, and are now innovating new and creative ways to rent seek their own customers.