A new report from the ARC Group estimates the Java market to have earned operators almost US$1.4 billion in 2003, which is forecast to dramatically increase to over US$15.5 billion by 2008. This equates to around 3% of all data revenues in 2003, rising to 12.4% by 2008. Removing person-to-person messaging revenues as an application category from both the total and Java markets is estimated to leave Java with a 10.7% share of total revenues in the remaining categories in 2003, increasing to 27.4% by 2008 - a fair return for Java applications in the contents categories. Those are rather large increases in J2ME revenues in the coming years. However, the discrepency in conversion ratios is amazing. It's clear that some markets will grow much faster than others. The good news is that J2ME is facing tough competition from other platforms, such as BREW. That means both sides will be striving to take growth from the other causing the entire industry to grow. The Asia Pacific region, mainly South Korea, China, and Japan - remains the main market for BREW with a market share of 51% in 2003 against 47% for North American Market and 2% for South America. |
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