On 08/05/2011 01:33 PM, Casper Bang wrote:
However, it would matter less to Google, as they would've already
capitalized/bootstrapped on the ecosystem. Indeed, one wonders if a
completely new language wouldn't fare fairly well now, given 1) how
many are attracted to Obj C due to the iPhone, 2) how Google are more
than capable of providing their own development tools and 3) the
massive 550K Android activations daily.
The iPhone is the iPhone and attracts developers because it's a brand.
As you say in your final lines, the language is not the problem, the VM
is. Google can't live without a VM because they have multiple hardware
items, unlike Apple.
For what concerns the ecosystem bootstrap and the fact that people work
with ObjC for the iPhone, I don't see the same thing for Android phones,
given they are succesful, but not a "brand". I'd see many people flying
away from Android if you change the SDK radically.
Frankly speaking, the easiest thing that Google could to today is paying
some money to Oracle and not change anything else. At this point to me
it's clear that Google made a huge mistake in not being able to forecast
where Java would land after the fall of Sun.
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