Hi, Sam.
BREW, while being inefficient in many other ways, has an
excellent business model since they allow clear path to market for
developers. If you can write a really good application and pass all
tests, then Qualcomm (and their partners like Verizon) takes all boring
things ;) like sales, collecting money, creating online shops in their
hands. You just receive money for your application. In J2ME world,
you're free to put your application on any website, but you should spend
a lot of efforts to make people buy it. Also, there's almost no
provisioning system, so you can't make such payment models like trial or
subscription, which are most efficient from both developer and user
point of view.
Also, Qualcomm is much more aggressive. For last 1.5 years they
have released 3 major releases (1.0, 1.1 and 2.0), inserting really
useful features, meanwhile MIDP 2.0 is still not released.
--
Alexandr Koloskov
Director of Development, Reaxion Corp.
E-Mail: alexk@reaxion.com
WWW: www.reaxion.com
> Hi Jay,
>
> I'm curious. What is ut about BREW that makes a solid business model
for
> wireless. What does BREW offer that the Java platform does not? I
would
> have thought the only difference between the two is which strata of
> developers you would attract, but perhaps I'm wrong.
>
> CHEERS> SAM
>
> Jay wrote:
>
> > Hello All
> >I have not posted for a while because I am in the process of writing
a
> book. I wanted to ask everyone in the group about
> >1. The viability of Qualcomm's business model in general
> >2. If the business model will work in ASIA ( Japan, Korea, China,
> Philippines )
> >Currently I see no solid business model for wireless on the phone
that
> will consistantly work untill BREW came along.
> >
> >---Jay
> >Wireless Architect
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