Java ME dumb phones overtake Android

[alexalex]

If Android is so hot, why has Java ME overtaken it?

Ranked by Internet market share -- rather than unit sales -- Google is now No. 3

• Apple's (AAPL) iOS is the still reigning champion of the World Wide Web among mobile operating systems (including tablets)
  
• Google's (GOOG) Android made a strong showing in 2011 but has started to fade
  
• Oracle's (ORCL) Java ME is now the world's fastest growing mobile OS, having retaining the No. 2 spot it lost briefly to Android in October.
  

Java ME?

Yes,

Java Micro Edition, the Java platform designed by Sun Microsystems and acquired by Oracle in 2010. It's used primarily in embedded systems, such as the low-cost feature phones (A.K.A. "dumb" phones) sold by the hundreds of millions to people all over the world who can't afford or don't want a smartphone......

http://tech.fortune....e-overtaken-it/

[wellofsouls]

Maybe people owning feature phones who did not use it to surf the internet before now start to surf the internet with their phones.

[alexalex]

Maybe people owning feature phones who did not use it to surf the internet before now start to surf the internet with their phones.

Have you looked at the graph ? in 12.2010 Java ME was close to 30% while Android was about 10%.

[~Johnny]

Probably because of markets like India and China were cheap dumb phones rules the roost. (Whereas in more western countries, what used to be cheap dumb phones and now just becoming cheap Android phones :p)

It is odd though how the iOS and Java ME lines look like reflections of each other.

[Jebadiah]

Many of those users on cheap dumb phones will move to cheap Android phones soon enough.

[the better twin]

Because the majority of consumers dont care or even know about which os there phone has, hence why the explosion of android is nothing to brag about.

[Phouchg]

It is odd though how the iOS and Java ME lines look like reflections of each other.

Too damn suspiciously for me. This would be a hell of a coincidence. While I can believe that dumbphones as such still have the largest slice, I declare a big bull on this graph.

[Miuku.]

But here's something to consider, Symbian actually GREW its market share last year;

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201101-20111

Not bad for a "dead platform".