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Re:The Story of Firefox OS by IshKebab on Friday March 03, 2017 @04:57PM (#13787125)
Wait... WhatsApp has a J2ME app? Like... a Midlet? From the 90s? For real?
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Re:The Story of Firefox OS by Drdrdrq on Saturday March 04, 2017 @03:37PM (#13792822)
I read somewhere that supporting "ancient" mobiles via j2me was the reason WhatsApp got the advantage over other chat apps. Yes, they (did) put a lot of effort in supporting j2me phones.

EDIT: found source: http://blog.textit.in/your-path-to-a-$16b-exit-build-a-j2me-...

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Re:The Story of Firefox OS by tim333 on Friday March 03, 2017 @06:16PM (#13787828)
It certainly did have http://blog.textit.in/your-path-to-a-$16b-exit-build-a-j2me-...
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Re:The Story of Firefox OS by pjmlp on Saturday March 04, 2017 @03:48AM (#13790015)
Not from the 90s, on many countries feature phones are still a thing, and they do run J2ME.
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