As a football (soccer) fan ceefax is the fastest way to keep up to date. I don't know any football fan who hasn't at some time "watched" a match on ceefax.

The 30 years of ceefax pages (p190 from memory) have quotes from several players and top managers (as well as David Moyes) saying pretty much the same.

Interviews with players in the past have quotes where ceefax is often the first time they here about something happening at the club they play for.

By comparison the digital services like "Sky Text" etc are slow and clunky. They don't allow the flexibility to show/hide information quickly and in my opinion are a huge step backwards for usability.

Another issue with MIDP is that you can't access any of the internal databases (address book, date book, to do, memos...). It's a security thing (you don't want apps you download to be able to read/write your contacts). But it's also annoying for anyone wanting to write apps that do things with the information you already have on a palm.

The Java Spotless system (the forerunner to MIDP/CDLC) did allow you to do this and from memory had a richer UI... but it's dead now. See MIDP4Palm FAQ. I hope the PDAP picks up some of the Spotless systems' abilities.