Comment by bjourne

Comment by bjourne 2 days ago

Lund working on feature phones! My job was writing and managing test suites for verifying the J2ME implementation. It was a top secret collaboration with Motorola. They took QA work extremely seriously and bugs could delay major launches. Unfortunately for them, "rock solid J2ME" wasn't really what customers were after. :)

lysace 2 days ago

SE's J2ME implementation was top notch. It just worked and it was fast.

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lysace 2 days ago

(Nokia's also worked but was slow. Everyone else's implementations tended to be both broken and slow. A particular shoutout to Samsung - they must have had 6+ separate, broken implementations.)

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kalleboo 2 days ago

The fact that they did J2ME multitasking on a feature phone better than Symbian S60 did multitasking of native apps, and did it before the iPhone got any form of multitasking at all always impressed me.

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- lysace 2 days ago
  
  Not to pile on... but let me pile on: symbian seemed eternally bureaucratic, lost in OO abstraction hell and lacked enough demo scene people who knew that a solid 60/72 fps is what mattered.
  People from Future Crew (Finland) and Triton (Sweden) should have been running these teams. Half ;-).
  
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