Are PCs and mobile phones really different?
Mobile widgets market is very attractive, especially for Web which see an opportunity of quadrupling the total accessible market. But there is a major difference: the Web, at the client side, is federated by almost one operating system – Microsoft Windows, when the mobile world is highly fragmented. Moreover, it is a violent cultural shock and a return towards the past: development tools, applications size, limited memory, battery consumption, none or limited multi-tasking, no mouse, etc. To get around these constraints, phone OS complexity and interoperability, two solutions seem to be usable: Web/Wap phone browser and Java MIDP environment.
