Comments on: I = V / R; Ohm’s law explains Developer Advocacy http://almaer.com/blog/ohms-law-explains-developer-advocacy blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:06:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jmdesp http://almaer.com/blog/ohms-law-explains-developer-advocacy/comment-page-1#comment-46846 jmdesp Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:57:42 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2720#comment-46846 I'm not sure you're getting the iPhone/J2ME market economics right. That's true everyone wants to develop for the iPhone and not J2ME but the quite thorough analyse Tomi Ahonen did of the iPhone shows that just recouping your development costs on it is hard : http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/06/full-analysis-of-iphone-economics-its-bad-news-and-then-it-gets-worse.html Maybe it's OK if you do it as some hobby at home, but if you're a company and didn't manage to make it a big hit, it'll be hard. And he shows the J2ME market as much more rosy than you believe. Nintendo sold 100 milllions of Tetris on J2ME. It's on the smartphone platform that no application ever reached that number ! (n°1 for iPhone, Angri Bird is just 4 millions). And Tomi quotes some other much less well-known applicaton still selling (pay user, real money !) 4 millions copies on J2ME. Now, I know your real point isn't really that, but I think it's important to get those number and not only believe the hype. I’m not sure you’re getting the iPhone/J2ME market economics right.

That’s true everyone wants to develop for the iPhone and not J2ME but the quite thorough analyse Tomi Ahonen did of the iPhone shows that just recouping your development costs on it is hard :
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/06/full-analysis-of-iphone-economics-its-bad-news-and-then-it-gets-worse.html
Maybe it’s OK if you do it as some hobby at home, but if you’re a company and didn’t manage to make it a big hit, it’ll be hard.

And he shows the J2ME market as much more rosy than you believe.
Nintendo sold 100 milllions of Tetris on J2ME. It’s on the smartphone platform that no application ever reached that number ! (n°1 for iPhone, Angri Bird is just 4 millions). And Tomi quotes some other much less well-known applicaton still selling (pay user, real money !) 4 millions copies on J2ME.

Now, I know your real point isn’t really that, but I think it’s important to get those number and not only believe the hype.

]]> By: Brad Neuberg http://almaer.com/blog/ohms-law-explains-developer-advocacy/comment-page-1#comment-46841 Brad Neuberg Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:15:12 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2720#comment-46841 Excellent writeup. I remember that particular engineering individual as well. Nice take away and writeup on the experience. Excellent writeup. I remember that particular engineering individual as well. Nice take away and writeup on the experience.

]]> By: cohoman http://almaer.com/blog/ohms-law-explains-developer-advocacy/comment-page-1#comment-46840 cohoman Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:53:57 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2720#comment-46840 Strange that I happened upon your blog article, as I was just thing about this subject yesterday after viewing some of the Palm Dev Videos (with you and Ben). Both yours and Ben's comments and enthusiasm in the videos bring such inspiration to myself as a WebOS developer, that I want to create more and more apps. Your videos showed me that a lot of thought has been put into the future development of WebOS (e.g., acceleration, db8, etc), and that makes me want to stick with the WebOS platform. So in my opinion, advocacy and evangelism is very important for the fostering of any product, and I think both you and Ben and many others at Palm are doing the right thing. Strange that I happened upon your blog article, as I was just thing about this subject yesterday after viewing some of the Palm Dev Videos (with you and Ben). Both yours and Ben’s comments and enthusiasm in the videos bring such inspiration to myself as a WebOS developer, that I want to create more and more apps. Your videos showed me that a lot of thought has been put into the future development of WebOS (e.g., acceleration, db8, etc), and that makes me want to stick with the WebOS platform.

So in my opinion, advocacy and evangelism is very important for the fostering of any product, and I think both you and Ben and many others at Palm are doing the right thing.

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