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Notice how the 800-pound gorilla, Microsoft, adheres to the mobile phone app standard and chose to write their Windows Live Search Mobile app in Java ME technology (not FlashLite, not BREW, not hype-me-up-til-I-puke mobile AJAX, and not anything else that is supposedly a Java-killer). They chose Java ME. Well, they also wrote their Windows Live Search Mobile app as a Windows Mobile 5.0 native, but can you blame them for wishful thinking? ;-) It's the Java ME port of their app that is worth noting.
See:
Microsoft chooses to program in Java ME technology
Here's a quote:
What is especially different
about Windows Live Search for
Mobile is Microsoft's embrace
of mobile phone application
standards. Not only is a
Windows Mobile 5.0 version
available, but a J2ME version
has also been produced by the
company.
Remember the above next time someone is blathering on about how FlashLite is a Java killer. Or, if someone is blah-blah-blahing about mobile AJAX or the mobile Web browser being the Java replacement. Microsoft (and Google) know which standard to program to for mobile phones, and which standard they need to write to in order to gain the most widespread audience for their mobile apps. People might learn a thing or two from those two wannabe companies. ;-)