Some people really want to run Android on their real device. I want to. It almost works. All I use is shell + browser all day mostly.
2012/3/15 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:22 AM, clay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thursday, March 15, 2012 3:31:01 AM UTC-5, fabrizio.giudici wrote: >> >> What? Java doesn't run on iOS because Apple forbids that. AFAIK there's >>> no >>> technical reason. >>> >>> >> Absolute nonsense! This is 100% technical. >> > > No. Even if there were a JRE on iOS, it's pretty unlikely that Apple would > approve applications written in Java in the app store since they have been > a very clearly hostile opponent of Java since day one (well, day two if you > exclude the dance that Steve Jobs once did at JavaOne to promise to make > MacOS the best Java environment available. Ironically, it actually > happened, even though he killed the initiative). > > >> You are also right that we are off topic: a new Java IDE that is built >> from the ground up for development inside of Android sounds amazing. >> > > Really? > > I'm genuinely curious, I really don't understand the excitement. What does > a developer gain by developing on the device instead of developing on a > real computer with a real IDE and uploading the application on the device > (which takes an extra thirty seconds)? > > -- > 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. > -- Jeb Beich http://www.red-source.net/jeb -- 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.
