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

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