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Finblade’s Chasey argues mobile developers are abandoning J2ME too fast
By Nicholas Lovell on March 4, 2009
Over at PocketGamer.biz, John Chasey, founder of IOMO, Finblade and Metismo, has argued that developers are making a mistake jumping from J2ME to iPhone too quickly.
John draws a parallel with the transition from PSOne to PlayStation 2, when publishers abandoned the old format and jumped to the PS2, which still had a much smaller installed base. In fact, in 2000, PSOne outsold the PS2 in 2000).
He argues that the publishers putting big bucks behind major titles for a new platform with a small installed base lost money, while “the few publishers still supporting the first Sony platform cleaned up.”
His advice: “don’t ignore the iPhone, but don’t abandon the many other viable mobile platforms out there.”
Smart advice, I’d say.
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