On Aug 17, 3:18 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
They created the entire universe that we call Java. If Java has no value, G would have started their own different thing. The tools, OSS, the community that only exists because of Sun. Out of all the big companies in computing, Sun would have to be at the top in terms of honour and sticking your principals even if it costs you $. Sun never sold out for $, something thats hard to find from other companies. > 2) Do you know what Google gets out of Android? Nothing... there is no > licence fees involved whatsoever so "greedy" is hardly applicable. Nonsense, they make zillions from advertising. Having a smart phone platform that uses the internet today means they can start making from ads today. The IPhone is closed, web apps are second class citizens. You dont even get ads when you hook up your gmail from an iphone. -- 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.
