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Sun To Build World's Biggest App Store Around Java
CWmike writes "Sun Micro plans to launch an App Store that could make Apple's look smaller than a 7-Eleven by comparison, CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote on his blog this week. Schwartz indicated the Java App Store, code-named Project Vector, will focus on PC users and estimated the size of the community at 1 billion. Sun plans to allow Java application developers to submit programs to a simple Web site so the company can evaluate them for safety and content before presenting them to the Java audience. Sun will charge for distribution. The company will reveal more details at its JavaOne conference, which opens June 2 in San Francisco, Schwartz said."
I was going to write a first post, but I got bought-out by Oracle before I could finish it.
Would you like an Oracle database with that?
...so I could suffer the meta-frustration of waiting for a Java applet to load so I could then buy some Java applets and wait for them to load.
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
All the programs are written in Java. It's more like a software *suppository*....
It'll crash every other browser at random times with strange exception errors, will take 10 minutes to load a page, I'm just so for it..
-=[ place
I'm taking bets... what's going to be slower, Sun's Java App Store or Adobe's Marketplace?
The only upside is I'll go outside and get a life while waiting for a craptastic widget to download.
You missed the point. They aren't just going to sell Java apps there, they're going to sell all kinds of apps. And, judging by phrases like "... network service to connect companies of all sizes and types to the roughly one billion Java users all over the world", they're just going to bundle it with JRE and /or JavaFX, and then hope that the install base for the latter is enough to make people come to them looking for a distribution channel.
I seriously doubt that will work out. If anything, it's just going to be one less reason for people to bother with desktop Java. As if putting a "Yes, I want to install OpenOffice" option in the JRE installer, and checked by default, wasn't a stupidest idea already...
Really? Why's it use so much CPU and memory? :o
(sorry! Had to!)
...Microsoft announces an app store built on .Net applications and plan on making it as Mono friendly as possible. (pretend they didn't already announce this for windows mobile)
One year from now...
- Sun announces closure of app store. Notable achievement: 6 popular apps
- Microsoft announces wildfire success.
Note: They also announce the rollout of their 3rd DRM scheme in hopes of ending the massive piracy rates on apps coming from the store.
- Nobody would know what RTFA meant if it didn't need to be said all the time
ED is the standard text editor.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
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Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
So, Sun will finally go live with their pet store.
Those who dismiss usability and design (and the network effect!!) under the gauzy umbrella of "marketing"
You're so right; he should have pointed out that App Store succeeded despite its numerous usability problems.
I thought it was about java being slower than C.
Really? You can't be bothered to type the rest of the phrase, but your filler text is longer?
Slashdot, home of the unintentionally ironic meta-joke. I think I'll go shoot myself now, m'kay?
World peace? All PC's coming together, macs, windows and linux alike, and download from the same store and run that same software?
yeah, if you're stupid and don't know how to code.
Isn't that why you would be coding in Java in the first place?
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
I'm not sure I want to know how you take your coffee...
Actually. I'm sure I don't want to know.
English is not this
The Debian Project has announced the creation of an Apt Store. This exciting repository will allow users to get whatever packages they need without even touching their mice.
Are you referring to the date when you click on it, or when it opens?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Sun has such a good record of making money with Java! I'm sure this initiative will be a stunning success!
"slow as dogs balls"
... These SI units get more eccentric every year.
I wasn't aware dogs balls were a standard unit of speed?
There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.
That's how you become a real man, son. Not a quiche eating pansy boy.