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Re:The strange case of virtual machines on telephones by lkosewsk on Sunday August 29, 2010 @02:30PM (#1644239)
A VM in a puny chip is the price one pays for a developer audience, to build a thriving ecosystem of apps so that consumers will want to buy the device.

Too bad Apple didn't pay that price, because otherwise, they might have had consumers and a thriving... oh, wait...

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Re:The strange case of virtual machines on telephones by teyc on Monday September 06, 2010 @09:09PM (#1667747)
Apple already had a toolchain and developers before iPod Touch arrived. It made sense for them.

A newcomer with no audience does not have too many choices. The world simply has more developers who program to JVM or CLR.

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