Thursday January 11, 2007 iPhone w/Java ME: It's just a matter of time
iPhone, Schmi-phone. Sure it plays all your favorite 99 cent songs from 50 Cent to 10,000 Maniacs, displays images, plays video clips of Johnny Depp throwing down the pirate-rap with Keira Knightley on board the Black Pearl, and makes calls to Grandma. Aye, aye. Aye. Phone. iPhone? Pfpphft! Phooey! But, can it play Java ME games????? No... See: It's only a matter of time: Java ME on the iPhone Here's a quote: ...like an iPod, it won't be an open system that people can develop for. Remember, this is both an iPod and a Phone.Not an open system! Well hackers of the world, get to work. Java ME technology is open source now. It's only a matter of time before the Jolly Roger is hoisted and a Java buccaneer figures out how to put Java ME software on an iPhone. It's just a matter of time... Arrrrr, matey! Just saw Jaime Cid's blog post on this subject (en Español) ¿Entiéndalo?: Jaime Cid's blog post |
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Posted by Shai Almog on January 15, 2007 at 07:16 AM PST #
Good points, Shai. I don't think of it as a failure for the Sun and Java brands, though. Apple has produced hits like the iPod and clunkers like the Newton in the past. The iPhone is going to be another Newton for Apple... It won't hit the mark at all and will be plagued by the Christmas Toy Syndrome - fun to play with for about 1-2 months, then will sit in a closet collecting dust after that.
Hinkmond
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on January 15, 2007 at 01:31 PM PST #
Posted by argod on January 15, 2007 at 02:19 PM PST #
Mr. argod,
How silly of me to not remember that Sun backed Java technology as a way to backstab NeXT! :-) I had thought all this time, we backed the Java programming language at Sun back in 1995 as a charter for Patrick Naughton, Mike Sheridan and James Gosling to spend time trying to figure out what would be the next trend of computing and how Sun might leverage it.
But of course you must know that our CEO (whom you say knows the "history" of this diabolical plot) is Jonathan Schwartz now and not Scott McNealy. Jonathan Schwartz was not CEO when back in 1995 when Java technology was first backed.
How truly Pollyannish of me to think Java technology was not some small step of a Machiavellian scheme by Sun to usurp OpenStep and drive it into oblivion, just like Eiffel or Smalltalk.
Shame on me for not remember revisionist history. ;-) For that I apologize.
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Hinkmond
Posted by 68.125.15.54 on January 15, 2007 at 07:15 PM PST #