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Re:Facebook Messenger 3.0 by nicpottier on Thursday November 14, 2013 @01:02AM (#6730851)
This is only really a shot across the bow if Facebook ports their messenger app to feature phones.

WhatsApp and the like didn't invent mobile messaging, they just went through the trouble of building J2ME clients across all the cheap handsets found in the developing world so that mobile messaging was available across all devices. Facebook isn't going to make any dent at all in the developing market unless they do the same.

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Re:Facebook Messenger 3.0 by erichocean on Thursday November 14, 2013 @01:28AM (#6730926)
Do you know if doing J2ME apps is still necessary in the developing world?
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Re:Facebook Messenger 3.0 by nicpottier on Monday November 25, 2013 @10:31AM (#6794541)
Sorry, didn't see this. But yes, the vast majority of handsets are still dumb, lots of Techno J2ME handsets still being sold.

That said, Android is getting so cheap that it is turning into a chasm between totally dumb phones (not J2ME, just a simple handset) and Android. The former is still the vast vast majority.

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