Comments on: Can JavaFX Mobile Compete With iPhone? http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/05/10/can-javafx-mobile-compete-with-iphone/ Simon Brocklehurst's Technology Blog Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:33:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Lauren http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/05/10/can-javafx-mobile-compete-with-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-350810 Lauren Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:28:48 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/05/10/can-javafx-mobile-compete-with-iphone/#comment-350810 hi, do u know when the iphone is coming to Australia and how much it will be. Thanks hi, do u know when the iphone is coming to Australia and how much it will be. Thanks

]]> By: simon http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/05/10/can-javafx-mobile-compete-with-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-138055 simon Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:55:16 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/05/10/can-javafx-mobile-compete-with-iphone/#comment-138055 <p>Laura, the iPhone is out in the UK on Nov 9, on O2. Price is £269 + monthly contract cost.</p> Laura, the iPhone is out in the UK on Nov 9, on O2. Price is £269 + monthly contract cost.

]]> By: laura evans http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/05/10/can-javafx-mobile-compete-with-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-137191 laura evans Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:51:35 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/05/10/can-javafx-mobile-compete-with-iphone/#comment-137191 i was wondering if you could tell me the price of the iphone and how long it would take to get to the uk i was wondering if you could tell me the price of the iphone and how long it would take to get to the uk

]]> By: Blog do Márcio d’Ávila » Novidades Sun e Oracle no JavaOne 2007 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/05/10/can-javafx-mobile-compete-with-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-47312 Blog do Márcio d’Ávila » Novidades Sun e Oracle no JavaOne 2007 Sat, 12 May 2007 03:25:21 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/05/10/can-javafx-mobile-compete-with-iphone/#comment-47312 [...] Can JavaFX Mobile Compete With iPhone?, por Simon Brocklehurst, 10/05/2007, em seu blog. Veja também JavaFX Mobile versus the iPhone, por David Beers. [...] [...] Can JavaFX Mobile Compete With iPhone?, por Simon Brocklehurst, 10/05/2007, em seu blog. Veja também JavaFX Mobile versus the iPhone, por David Beers. [...]

]]> By: simon http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/05/10/can-javafx-mobile-compete-with-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-46745 simon Fri, 11 May 2007 08:56:59 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/05/10/can-javafx-mobile-compete-with-iphone/#comment-46745 David Beers has an interesting perspective on this discussion: http://www.pikesoft.com/blog/index.php?itemid=176 He thinks comparisons of JavaFX Mobile with iPhone are "silly". I'm replying here because you can't post a comment on David's blog without the hassle of registering. The issue for Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson and the other leaders in this space is that they simply don't have good answers to iPhone running embedded Mac OS X. It shouldn't be possible for a new entrant in a market like this to leap-frog the established players by such a margin: iPhone will probably be the best mobile phone on the market by a wide margin (with the exception of the "closed"/"open" thing, which, as I understand it from the Apple shareholder meeting that just happened, they're figuring out how to address i.e. they're listening to people that are saying they really want to develop applications for iPhone). So - the established leaders in the market have messed up big time. Now they have to catch up. The might not realise it yet - I suspect many in those companies are still deluding themselves that their current products are competitive with iPhone. But it won't be long until they all figure out they've screwed up on strategy (suffering from too much group-think). The question is: what will be the fastest way for them to catch up? JavaFX Mobile might be part of the answer; or, it might not. The devil is really in the detail with that. But, one way or another, the major players all need to take a big step forward in terms of OS/OE platform capability if they're going to compete with what Apple is doing. David asked why SavaJe failed. I suspect a big part of the reason was timing: hardware technology didn't develop fast enough for them. We're only now just reaching the point where you can build handsets that can support such high-end software. Apple has their timing 100% spot on with iPhone... but that's in part because they could afford to wait (Jobs binned at least one iPhone because the hardware technology wasn't there yet). As a venture capital-funded start-up, SavaJe had to place their bets timing-wise; they had one shot. And they got it wrong. David Beers has an interesting perspective on this discussion:

http://www.pikesoft.com/blog/index.php?itemid=176

He thinks comparisons of JavaFX Mobile with iPhone are “silly”. I’m replying here because you can’t post a comment on David’s blog without the hassle of registering.

The issue for Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson and the other leaders in this space is that they simply don’t have good answers to iPhone running embedded Mac OS X. It shouldn’t be possible for a new entrant in a market like this to leap-frog the established players by such a margin: iPhone will probably be the best mobile phone on the market by a wide margin (with the exception of the “closed”/”open” thing, which, as I understand it from the Apple shareholder meeting that just happened, they’re figuring out how to address i.e. they’re listening to people that are saying they really want to develop applications for iPhone). So – the established leaders in the market have messed up big time. Now they have to catch up. The might not realise it yet – I suspect many in those companies are still deluding themselves that their current products are competitive with iPhone. But it won’t be long until they all figure out they’ve screwed up on strategy (suffering from too much group-think).

The question is: what will be the fastest way for them to catch up? JavaFX Mobile might be part of the answer; or, it might not. The devil is really in the detail with that. But, one way or another, the major players all need to take a big step forward in terms of OS/OE platform capability if they’re going to compete with what Apple is doing.

David asked why SavaJe failed. I suspect a big part of the reason was timing: hardware technology didn’t develop fast enough for them. We’re only now just reaching the point where you can build handsets that can support such high-end software. Apple has their timing 100% spot on with iPhone… but that’s in part because they could afford to wait (Jobs binned at least one iPhone because the hardware technology wasn’t there yet). As a venture capital-funded start-up, SavaJe had to place their bets timing-wise; they had one shot. And they got it wrong.

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