Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App
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Re: Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App
#2Citation needed; I'd certainly love to know whether J2ME devices were a significant chunk of WhatsApp's actives, but there's zero data to back up the suggestion..
Re: Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App
#3If anyone has used the J2ME version of WhatsApp, can they describe how similar it is to the smartphone versions?
For example:
• Do you get a notification as soon as messages are waiting, even if the J2ME app hasn't been run recently?
• Are photo/video messages available?
• Are the group messaging options the same?
Re: Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App
#4If anyone has used the J2ME version of WhatsApp, can they describe how similar it is to the smartphone versions? For example: • Do you get a notification as soon as messages are waiting, even if the J2ME app hasn't been run recently? • Are photo/video messages available? • Are the group messaging options the same?
Yes all of them work. Not just that they work surprisingly well. This is the best J2ME app that I have ever used on my phone.
Re: Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App
#5i dabbled with some J2ME development back in the day when palm pilots were cool, i even made a basic app for the original (early 2000-ish ) Motorola Razer.. it's not easy at all... i haven't looked for community resources for J2ME in years but back then i could find hardly any...
Re: Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App
#6Citation needed; I'd certainly love to know whether J2ME devices were a significant chunk of WhatsApp's actives, but there's zero data to back up the suggestion..
As of today: Smartphones outsold feature phones for this first time ever in India. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/samsung-smartphones-outse...
From my personal experiences, international countries that have smartphone adoption use Viber, and the feature phone countries use WhatsApp.
Re: Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App
#7Citation needed; I'd certainly love to know whether J2ME devices were a significant chunk of WhatsApp's actives, but there's zero data to back up the suggestion..
Remember that it's not only the J2ME actives that matter. The fact that you have access to all your friends wihtout exception inside the same app is killer, even if you have the latest iPhone.
That's what made me return to WhatsApp in the first place. That, coupled with an apparently flawless experience.
Re: Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App
#8Citation needed; I'd certainly love to know whether J2ME devices were a significant chunk of WhatsApp's actives, but there's zero data to back up the suggestion..
As of today: Smartphones outsold feature phones for this first time ever in India. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/samsung-smartphones-outse... From my personal experiences, international countries that have smartphone adoption use Viber, and the feature phone countries use WhatsApp.
Singapore is a Smartphone country, but Whatsapp is pretty dominant there. (I didn't run into anyone who didn't use it as their primary messaging platform)
Re: Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App
#9The key take away from this article is not to build your app in J2ME but to recognize how big the world is outside of America. American focused startups face lots of competition in a relatively small market.
Re: Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App
#10i dabbled with some J2ME development back in the day when palm pilots were cool, i even made a basic app for the original (early 2000-ish ) Motorola Razer.. it's not easy at all... i haven't looked for community resources for J2ME in years but back then i could find hardly any...
And out of curiosity I decided to search for J2ME on my laptop and Google had very little resources except official Oracle docs and a Java blog tutorial ... from 2005.
Good times.