[android-developers] Re: How to install the .apk file into blackberry

I am so fed up with JME, I really hope Android does kill it off. Sure,
Android has its annoying problems too, but Google has done much better
with Android than Sun and the JCP ever did with JME: it was
inexcusably idiotic of them to let OEMs and other dissemblers gut the
WORA dream with such a farce of specification and implementation.

What I am referring to is the nightmare of 'fragmentation' they
allowed by allowing OEMs to call their devices compliant, when not
even the HTTP connection APIs would work consistently: it is notorious
that developers often had to forego using the HTTP APIs completely,
relying on java.net.Socket just to get code that would work semi-
consistently across different OEMs and even different models from the
same OEM. And what a mess they made out of the Address Book API! Only
Nokia did a half-decent job. Yet Sun let them get away with it.

Yet mention of this in the trade press is sparing. Even
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~damithch/df/device-fragmentation.htm#Java_Vs_non-Java_applications,
which in other respects is good at describing fragmentation, downplays
this aspect quite drastically saying only mild things like, "carriers
are exacerbating the fragmentation problem by imposing various
restrictions to gain economic advantages."

On Sep 17, 9:17 am, Frank Weiss <fewe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Daring to go OT, I'm wondering if Android is the JME killer. As mentioned by
> the previous poster, JME is not all that WORA (write once run anaywhere).
> Aside from layout and some other issues, Android looks like it is the
> closest yet. Thoughts?

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