Java Buzz Forum - Crazy antics at a smartphone website

I had watched with some amusement the antics of a certain website which had for a very long time now been espousing (in vivid glaring detail) the complete destruction of Nokia and J2ME and the coming ascendancy of Microsoft Pocket PC phones (now called Microsoft smartphones).

The author of this website (which shall remain nameless) had provided me with countless hours of entertainment, especially since he obviously had no clue about the subject, but managed to take up to 50% of the total posts on the small Microsoft smartphone group to which he posted daily.

Imagine my surprise, then, when someone in a Linux advocacy group posted a quote from the site as if it were news from the BBC or CNN:

Reverse Logistics comes to Microsoft mobiles thanks to .NET Compact Framework - anon, Aug 26 2003

While it is common sense that wireless Java is just for game playing for kids, it looks like now .NET CF is gaining major role in corporate/enterprise applications. NET Compact Framework (.NET CF) - the mobile applications platform from Microsoft - is unbeatable for enterprise applications:

I realized then that the guy had simply registered his site with Google News, and now anyone searching for wireless news would get his posts as if they were gospel.

The Microsoft smartphone, of course, has been having much difficulty getting any traction in the market. The first Microsoft smartphone did not sell well and had many problems (of the blue screen of death variety). In addition, carriers started putting J2ME in them due to popular demand, something which must have totally unhinged the guy since he started posting about his own efforts to get J2ME running on his smartphone (this from someone who has been saying for 1-2 years now that Java had no future in cellphones).

"It appears I am not the only one who has experienced serious usability problems with the SPV. I know of at least one person, who is involved with Orange, who refuses to use the SPV any more. A few Microsoft people I have spoken to also seem unhappy with their company's new smartphone. Some even regret they have to use it within Microsoft." "Jessica Figueras of analyst firm Ovum recently summed up our apathy when she described Microsoft's smartphone operating system as a "typical Microsoft product", complete with bugs and system crashes."

From: ComputerWeekly

"Microsoft Smartphone Hits T-Mobile Snag" "The Wall Street Journal Friday quoted a T-Mobile spokesman as questioning the quality of the Microsoft product. Reliability, security and overall product performance are at the heart of the decisions that carriers will consider, as they assess Microsoft mobile software system. There have been reports that trial versions of Microsoft Windows Powered Smartphone software often froze up, forcing the user to reboot."

From: InternetNews

It became so bad that the guy finally posted this truly weird rallying cry for the "troops". Perhaps he fancied himself a self-proclaimed Douglas MacArthur?

"You want to fight a god, use the weapon of a god."

Don't worry. Microsoft smartphone will win.

I, single-handedly, will contribute to it in a ways you can't imagine yet, but you will see (or feel but not see) in months to come.

So don't worry people, stick to Microsoft smartphone, despite temporary problems and difficulties.

Yet in year 2002 I was neutral as far as cell phones are concerned - I like them all and as a proof I had a web site that covered all platforms (wireless software dot info). At the end of 2002 evil empire attacked me and it opened my eyes. Since then I and certain friends of mine are operating in mysterious ways to help Microsoft smartphone to win.

To moment of breakthrough for MS smartphone is near. Please stick to Microsoft smartphone. You will not regret it.

..said the bloke from http://xxxxx

"I am the magic man. I am your link to the subconscious. I have what you want. I can get you what you can't have."

Now this was some truly weird sheeit, and it elicited some funny comments from other posters.

Someone mentioned that the guy was a fired Nokia employee who had become so bitter about it that he had devoted an entire website to getting back at his former employer. Perhaps, but it helps to remember that even the craziest nuts can cause confusion and havoc during their 15 minutes of fame.


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