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J2ME and .Net CFF Mobile Games

Posted by krow on from the what-if-I-don't-care-for-either dept.

Java World is featuring the first part of a series comparing J2ME and the .Net CF vaporware (ok, it will exist at some point). It does tout the normal Java "features" such as being cross-platform in comparison to the mono-platform reality of .NET CFF. It has a bizarre critique of .Net CLR for being object oriented, and mentions the fact that most of the Linux PDAs coming out now run Java as an advantage for Java. (I love my Zaurus but I can't imagine it being useful for most people.)

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  1. lots of reasons .NET CF will fail and fail badly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    .NET CF is already monolithic and bloated at version 0.9. J2ME is tiny and modular.

    j2me is already a couple of years old and pervasive (millions of devices) while .NET CF is still vaporware in the field (I've got it since I'm a Visual Studio Everett beta tester)

    Java was designed from the ground up to run on small devices - .NET was coined by a marketroid in a smokey room to fight back against J2EE

    Manufacturers (of highly desirable branded goods) don't want the handheld market to go the way of the PC (zero margin white box comodity)

    J2ME has a broad coalition of big league supporters: symbian, palm, sharp, nokia, sony, ibm, oracle.

    Compaq add 3rdParty java capabilitys to pocket PC on the ipaq because business customers demand j2me... can't imagine anyone being able (or willing) to add a 3rd Party .NET CF to a symbian device

    The major Manufacurers are heavily involved in the evolution of comapct java - and have organised it so that it can be installed on the full spectrum of mobile hardware... .NET requires more expensive & larger screen devices, because microsoft dictate the specifications needed to run their bloatware

    nokia, IBM, Borland, Sun (and many others) each provide a seperate independant j2me developer kit and IDE FOR LINUX!!!! - this sort of open-standard support from large companies is the attitude that will kill microsoft sometime in the early 21st century

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    Was gonna do the standard 'fail.net initiative' type troll but hey there is no need in this story: .NET CF will surely fail. And I didn't see a VS.NET ad with the story :)

  2. Sorry to ignore most of the article but.. by |deity| · · Score: 2, Interesting

    >"I love my Zaurus but I can't imagine it being >useful for most people."

    I really have to reply to this. I've used some of the microsoft pdas and they aren't bad, but I wouldn't trade my zaurus for any of them. Many, not all or even most, but many PDA users are technically adept.

    Anyone that wants to have a really cool, very useful toy would love the zaurus.

    I have one and I assure you that anyone could use it for the tasks that most people use pdas for. For the people with a little more technical skill they are great.

    That's just my opinion I could be wrong.

    --
    Environmentalists are their own worst enemy. ~tricklenews.com
  3. Re:.NET CF by MeanMF · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What's commonly known as vaporware then.

    It's more commonly known as "Beta"... I'm running it right now.