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Sun Is Porting Java To the iPhone

Posted by kdawson on from the who's-driving-now dept.

krquet notes an InfoWorld article on Sun's plans for the iPhone. After studying Apple's newly released SDK docs for 24 hours, Sun decided it was feasible to develop a JVM, based on Java Micro Edition, for both the iPhone and the iTouch. An analyst is quoted: "I think going forward, with the SDK, it takes out of Apple's control which applications are 'right' for the iPhone." The article doesn't speculate on how Apple might to react to such a loss of control. "Apple had not shown interest in enabling Java to run on the iPhone, but Sun plans to step in and do the job itself... The free JVM would be made available via Apple's App Store marketplace for third-party applications."

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  1. No posts and for once I have mod points ! by wildBoar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh the irony

  2. Re:Oh boy! Time for some barely useable ports... by palegray.net · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least it's not Flash, right?

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  3. Re:What about the fact that... by MadMidnightBomber · · Score: 4, Funny

    Easy - we'll just port Emacs. Then you won't need to run anything else.

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  4. Re:Not without a private agreement with Apple by Kattspya · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, that pisses me off. I have no choice at all in operating systems, I wanted to install Ubuntu but I couldn't because of Microsofts monopoly. Their evil monopoly is horrible, just horrible.

    Goddamn fanboys.