It's rather blindingly obvious that Jobs was talking about mobile java / client-side java at the time. At that time (and still today), www.apple.com was running java.
On Oct 28, 6:54 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > You're misrepresenting what apple is doing (or misunderstanding). > > Apple isn't trying to bash java > > Steve Jobs in > 2007<http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/ultimate-iphone-faqs-list-p...> > : > > “Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big > heavyweight ball and chain.” > > Your other points still hold, though. Apple thinks that Java sucks *and* > that it threatens their business model, hence the current decision to stop > providing it. The decision makes business sense. > > -- > Cédric -- 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.
