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Fuzzy Logic Java on the iPhone - not going to happen?
Fuzzy Logic Java on the iPhone - not going to happen? | Java on the iPhone - not going to happen? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Saturday, 08 March 2008 | |
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Admittedly, the only Java app I know I definitely use is Opera Mini on one of my mobile phones, which I do find very handy when I use that particular phone, but if I am using Java anywhere else it must be so seamless that I’m not even realising it. My Internet banking used to use Java, but doesn’t any more – and I realise I don’t even have Java loaded onto Vista since I last re-installed it – and I definitely haven’t missed it. A site I visited in the last few days told me it needed Java, or wanted to use it if only I’d had in installed, but whatever I needed from that site I was able to get without Java being installed. Of course, you can find Java apps and games on the web, Java is in many phones, and it’s even in Blu-ray players, but Java just isn’t a big part of my world. If any readers can tell me of a must-have Java app that I’m missing out on, feel free to leave a comment and I’ll definitely check it out. But Java has been around for over a decade now, and it’s built into devices, built into Mac OS X, can be downloaded onto Windows PCs – and now Sun wants to put Java into the iPhone. Steve Jobs originally said that Java definitely wouldn’t be available on the iPhone as it was like a big ‘heavyweight ball and chain’, and that ‘maybe’ we’d see Flash one day. Back in September 2007 Sun was hassling Apple about wanting Java on the iPhone, but all seemed to go quiet – until the iPhone and iPod Touch SDK was launched a few days ago. An article in Infoworld has quoted Eric Klein, VP of Java marketing at Sun, as saying that: “Now, the iPhone is open... 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” – and that Java would be a free download through the iPhone App Store. So, what else did Eric Klein say, and why does it seem unlikely Java will ever make it to the iPhone, no matter how much Sun might want it, while also making other third party apps like Firefox, Flash and others equally unlikely? Please read onto page 2. |
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