Handset also-rans create new mobile platform

Inferring

"inferring a worrying belief"..

You mean implying. They imply, you infer.

I'm gonna get my own standard

With blackjack and hookers

J2ME

I still don't understand why they don't just expand the *existing* Java support. Standardise the APIs properly (the current ones are pretty random as to whether they're implemented and generally they're not implemented properly anyway). Also give it a decent UI API for consistency (after all, most of Apple's success is from a standard, easy to use, UI).

Give it proper access to other parts of the phone and you have a ready made runtime which works along with an existing developer base with mature tools. You can do away with the code signing and having to buy certificates by using an app store to provide the signing if you want.

Inferring/Implying...

I think they were implying, but the author did not infer, that they were thinking of porting it over to open platforms, but not to closed platforms, ie iPhone, Windows, Blackberry. If this has low-level tie ins, it makes sense; it is harder to get into the lower recesses of the closed mobile OSes than the open ones.

This implication certainly makes more sense, when you consider that Symbian, Linux Mobile, and Android are all considered open OSes, than the inferred implication stated by the author.