On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, I wrote:
> > More recently, I retracted this speculation,
> > albeit hesitantly. Microsoft isn't so interested
> > in JavaPhones....
And Hubert responded, in part:
> ....Also, They [Microsoft] have 'Stinger' in place and
> you can program in the usual Win32 API for it. ( with some
> of the API not applicable.)....
I.e., WinCE, which hasn't really played. Though it might,
in a phone. For all we know, telephony has been what
WinCE has been missing all along. And WinCE would be
running native code, a performance advantage over all but
the most sophisticated (and unlikely) JavaPhone implementations.
This would definitly give WinCE the edge in games software.
More likely, Stinger will just get a tacked-on a DoCoMo
KVM-oid implementation, hacked as need be for the U.S.
market. This is assuming, of course, that there will be
any net-deliverable killer apps in Java to make this worth
doing. Opinions?
-m
leap@gol.com
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Received on Mon Mar 19 06:33:04 2001