(keitai-l) Re: Mobile Alliance

From: Bill Volk <bvolk_at_teknikcorp.com> Date: 10/08/03 Message-ID: <009a01c38dcd$d19152c0$6401a8c0@bvolk>

Tom Hume wrote:

>As for any other software project, we reckon writing the code is 20-30%
>of the effort (that's not just markup, but back-end stuff too). 

In J2ME, MIDP 1.0 writing the code (for the emulator) is 5% of the
effort.  Getting it to work on the actual phones is 95% of the effort.

Seriously, I agree that design is the biggest part of these projects.
Designing a multiplayer game that works with 6 second latencies is not
easy.

Bill