Let us not forget the plugins and extra features for user support on
JDK..:)..

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]>wrote:

> They could always sell an extended SDK that supports cross-compilation from
> Java to iOS :)
>
>
> On 8 June 2010 15:45, Rakesh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> so the million dollar question is:
>>
>> How does Apple make money from Java? Does committing people to develop
>> the JDK give any financial payback?
>>
>> Rakesh
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Casper Bang <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> Good point. BTW, I agree with Chris' points and I understand that
>> >> narrow-focusing is a key to make money. After all, one of the Sun big
>> >> mistakes might have been to focus on too many things (same for me,
>> >> actually).
>> >
>> > I also agree with that point, but I don't think the equation is as
>> > simple as that. If it were, what went wrong some 12+ years ago when
>> > the Mac platform lost to Windows? Mac was just as focused back then;
>> > growing their own ecosystem (own hardware, own software...) unlike
>> > Microsoft who embraced diversity (as in bamboo PC's over IBM). I see a
>> > parallel here to iPhone vs. Android, the latter also embraces
>> > diversity.
>> >
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