Re:Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a depositi...
by laumars on Sunday October 26, 2014 @08:58PM
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You don't need a runtime environment on the client side to design a cross platform development toolkit. What happens with iOS is that 3rd party tools compile native iOS packages (kind of like cross compiling to target a platform different from the one you're developing in)
Re:Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a depositi...
by comex on Monday October 27, 2014 @02:25AM
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Such as Flash, which Apple did try to kill - remember the old section 3.3.1?
http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flas...
The clause was removed just 5 months later; there were rumors that potential antitrust issues were involved:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/05/apples-compiler-policy-...
History repeats itself.
Re:Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a depositi...
by laumars on Monday October 27, 2014 @05:41AM
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There's a few different solutions around. I believe one of them (https://trigger.io/) is even YC funded.
> It was the fastest Windows-based implementation of a Java virtual machine for the first two years after its release.[1] Sun Microsystems, the creator of Java, sued Microsoft in October 1997 for incompletely implementing the Java 1.1 standard.[2]
Which is the fastest JVM after 1997 is essentially a moot point after the lawsuit was filed.
I also like how Apple completely sidestepped such kinds of situations in iOS by disallowing third party SDKs and alternate browser engines. If there can be no Netscape or Java, there is no threat and no need to kill something and potentially get into trouble. Same with Google and Chromebooks.