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What Does Sun Think of How the iPhone Can't Run Java?

"I think it's a mistake," answered Robert Brewin, candidly
By iPhone News Desk
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October 7, 2007 08:45 AM EDT
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Asked at the end of his keynote address on Day Three of AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California yesterday what he thought of the fact that Java doesn't run on the Apple iPhone, Robert Brewin - Sun's CTO and VP of Software - replied that he thought it was "a mistake" on Apple's part and that it would make more sense if Java were able to run on iPhones right from the get-go.|

Brewin went on to assert that the reason for Apple's disinclination to embrace Java was that "Fundamentally, they don't like open systems," before touting JavaFX as a feasible competitor to Silverlight or AJAX as a multimedia display technology.

JavaFX will only be able to power rich applications on the iPhone with Apple's consent though. It made an interesting side-discussion after Brewin's well-received keynote address, and Jeremy Geelan, Conference Chair of AJAXWorld 2008 East in New York, predicated that there would be at least one JavaFX session as part of next year's iPhone track at AJAXWorld.


(Photo: September 24, 2007) - AJAXWorld delegates watching
a keynote presentation live at the SYS-CON.TV simulcast lounge
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