macrumors.com — Sun announced that they are developing a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone with the newly released Software Development Kit (SDK)."We're going to make sure that the JVM offers the Java applications as much access to the native functionality of the iPhone as possible," he said.The specific ve...
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natenovsMar 9, 2008
xcode is a joke of an ide, but it is free, so i'll give them that.
santasingMar 10, 2008
Sun does not do UI design, they make hardware, and maintain Java standards.
ilgazMar 10, 2008
Apple still can't roll out a Java 6 for their own computer/OS, a desktop thing with very fast real CPU. "Intel 64bit developer preview" doesn't count. IBM Java 6 for PPC/Linux is 16 months old now.
ilgazMar 10, 2008
Apple and Smart Phone (with real definition) doesn't work. They want the Apple II or first Macintosh. A completely closed device with user-class applications on front. Even the multi tasking idea (no background apps) is similar. If a vendor does decide something like that, you will never, ever comfortably use that device as other smart phones.iPhone won't have a decent flash, java, root level running security software, themes unless you don't hack it. $600 is way too expensive for my time to hack with third party.I was running 8 applications even including a firewall on my not so classy looking Nokia E65 Symbian phone today at a cafe transferring money, messaging, copying and pasting and talking. That is an "Enterprise" device. iPhone is not, will never be.Enterprise concluded to stay on Unix for large servers, pay millions of dollars to J2EE applications for a single, simple reason: Not to get tied to single vendor. Anyway, leave iPhone fans alone, there has been thousands of insightful comments like yours on various places. Nothing changed. They bought the locked device, hacked it and whined about bricking.
ilgazMar 10, 2008
Well, Sun will code it and when they are not allowed to release it, they will sue Apple for abusing their monopoly on device/OS.It worked in Microsoft case and MS was only "OS Vendor". On iPhone, Apple is BOTH OS and Hardware vendor. Sun is not a company to joke with, it is not some poor, single developer which you can mute via DMCA notice.
macattkMar 11, 2008
Java for the iPhone? Yuck. I'm sorry, but I don't see how anything Java is going to enhance the iPhone experience. I'm not even talking about Java's sluggish UI or it's huge memory footprint. Java, go away.
adrienJun 28, 2008
I know that Sun makes hardware. But they didn't perform so well with Java. In fact, the closer to high-level software layers they get, the more sloppy their work is.For example, their GUI toolkit for Java, Swing, is a pile of junk.
portos12Jul 1, 2008
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