What Android's really about (hint: not the iPhone)

Re:What Android's really about (hint: not the iPhone) by mich on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @04:46PM (#79522)

I find the elitism here too funny. Most people seem to think that using Ruby or LISP makes them superior to thosepoor Java programmers while in the end all they are creating is a web-app like twitter (and of course think they are changing the world with this!). There are many Java programmers that are better than you.

And yes, as mentioned before they are using JVM which means you aren't limited to a single language(Java).

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Re:What Android's really about (hint: not the iPhone) by omouse on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @05:54PM (#79556)

"There are many Java programmers that are better than you."

Most likely because they've studied Haskell, OCaml, Forth, Lisp, or actually know something about computer science. The majority of Java programmers aren't like that though.

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Re:What Android's really about (hint: not the iPhone) by michaelneale on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @06:14PM (#79561)

Presumably thats the law of averages at work. Anything popular will have that effect.

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Re:What Android's really about (hint: not the iPhone) by sanj on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @05:12PM (#79537)

I appear to have sparked that with my snarky comment about l33t haxxors.

What I really meant is that Java is where the broad market of developers is. Much like VB was where the market was, and to some extent, still is.

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Re:What Android's really about (hint: not the iPhone) by davidw on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @04:48PM (#79524)

Actually, they aren't using the JVM, but the Dalvik VM.

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Re:What Android's really about (hint: not the iPhone) by michaelneale on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @11:23PM (#79651)

Can we agree to call it Dalek? So much cooler, yet so much more trademarked (unless trademarks expire??)

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Re:What Android's really about (hint: not the iPhone) by mich on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @05:23PM (#79545)

You are right, of course. My mistake.

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