1) Did Sun have anything directly competing with Android? Nope, JME was a sorry excuse for an application layer, which couldn't do anything remotely interesting with the actual phone hardware.
2) Do you know what Google gets out of Android? Nothing... there is no licence fees involved whatsoever so "greedy" is hardly applicable. Google created a marked that was not there before. It may be that it got in the way of some Sun CTO's wishful thinking about JME and/or JavaFX but that's more a testament of Sun's inability to innovate and execute. I for one am happy that thanks to Google, I can now write interesting software for my phone, browse the web with full flash support and sit here in the train early morning using my laptop tethered giving me wifi. Yes it's too bad about Sun, but that's hardly Google's fault. /Casper -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
