Well now that Amazon has let the cat out of the bag, I can say what I've been up to for the past few weeks. HandMark Studios contacted me about an opportunity to develop there Zagat app on a new device. So I figured they would say Android (no thank you) or the Blackberry, but as luck would have it they said the Kindle.
Having known that the Kindle was based on JavaME for a few years now I had given up hope of it ever having a SDK for developers to use. But over the past couple days they have announced AppStore pricing (which I laughed about since I knew why), and now the SDK program "coming soon". However for me it has already been here, and I have enjoyed it.
Enjoyable JavaME development, not because of the tools, nor any standardization on the ME spec. No, the enjoyment comes from the lack of tools, the full VM (this ain't no MIDP joke, it's PBP) and support on the Mac OS platform. Now I am able to build cool ME apps like I should have been able to do for years on cellphone had SUN not dropped the ball and let Carriers stamp out innovation and stonewall device consistency.