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January 24, 2008 | Comments: (0)

Mobile developer issues to be aired at Sun

TAGS: Mobile Application Development

A group of persons interested in the plight of mobile application developers and content providers will gather at Sun Microsystems headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. Friday morning to discuss how to get concerns addressed.

The idea is to gather feedback on issues faced by developers in dealing with telecommunications carriers and others in getting their products up and running on different handhelds.

"The bottom line is it's hard to create content, to deploy it, to monetize it," said Terrence Barr, Sun technical evangelist for the mobile and embedded developer community, at the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days Conference on Thursday in Santa Clara.

Barr also broached the subject of the formation of a mobile developer alliance on Wednesday at the conference. Attendees of the conference can attend Friday's meeting as well.

Friday's event will be a grassroots session on how to proceed with addressing the different players to get them to move on developer concerns.

"Unfortunately, the mobile developer has no lobby," and the playing field is tilted toward the original equipment manufacturers and telecommunications carriers, Barr said.

Posted by Paul Krill on January 24, 2008 04:31 PM

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