https://javacard.vetilles.com/2009/09/29/what-does-advertising-say-about-smart-cards/ A weblog on Java Card, security, and other things personal Thu, 18 May 2017 07:26:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.32 https://javacard.vetilles.com/2009/09/29/what-does-advertising-say-about-smart-cards/#comment-3740 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:16:23 +0000 http://javacard.vetilles.com/?p=477#comment-3740 You are right. Explanation for such a sad situation is very simple.Major smart card vendors are focused only on volume customers. As this is B2B sector there is no need to invest in promotion over Internet. Also there is a very small market for 3rd party java card developers because there is no straight to distribute such a software.
Despite that fact we do provide cards in volume of 5-10 cards or more to our real and potential customers ( service providers, application developers, mobile operators, hardware and software vendors) with our (U)SIM card OS or just an applet to do demonstration, field tests etc. Since we are a software developers we outsource the smart card manufacturing to our partners and we deliver the cards to sell our software. As for development tools, there are a number of kits offered by Gemalto and other vendors so I don’t think that it is too difficult to get some sample cards.

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