McGuire’s Law

I think it went largely unnoticed, but a couple of weeks ago, Sprint announced it was completely opening most APIs for Java-based feature phones (starting with the new Instinct S30). Previously, only those in Sprint’s Professional Developers Program had access to this part of the SDK.

The move is intended to enable much broader development of apps with capabilities similar to what folks have been developing for smartphones, including:

• Multimedia: recording audio, playing media files such as MP3 songs, streaming content and using the camera to take pictures
• Messaging: sending and receiving messages
• Bluetooth: establishing connectivity to send/receive data with peripherals
• Contacts/Calendar: reading and writing to contacts/address book, and reading and writing to events
• File Access: reading and writing to the internal file access on the handset

What do you think? Is this a big deal, or not?

(Click here to start developing with these APIs.)

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• Google blocks unlocked G1s from downloading for-pay applications, upsets developers
• Palm Pre Losing Mojo Each Day the SDK is Held Close
• BlackBerry App World sets $2.99 minimum price
• Amazon’s Kindle for iPhone hits the App Store
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• Mobile app stores causing more confusion
• App Store stats suggest humans have attention span of gnats

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• Smartphones Provide Extra Mana for Mobile Games Industry
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• Nokia launching a Symbian app store at MWC?
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• Google now accepting paid apps in Android Market
• IPhone Developer Says Price Point Not Sustainable
• Mobile games, BlackBerry apps dominate Handango Yardstick
• When everybody wants to be your Friend: What’s an Application Developer to do?

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• The “WAP Gap” All Over Again – W3C, HTTPS and Transcoding
• Windows Mobile development slowed

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• Palm’s app store christened App Catalog, games not a priority
• Update – Diagram on Mobile Applications: Browser, Lightweight, Local-based Apps
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• Making money from Appstores
• Silver Lining for Games…
• Apple suddenly approves a bunch of browsers for App Store; major policy shift in progress?
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• Palm Pre to get its own “App Catalog”
• Smartphone developers lining up to support Palm Web OS