Нет комментариев 15.01.2007

Чесслово - больше не буду, это последнее:

“Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.”

Steve Jobs.
The New York Times. Ultimate iPhone FAQs List, Part 2

Насчет nobody более чем спорно, но необходимость в поддержке Java в iPhone явно отсутствует. Это очевидно. Но не для всех.

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Steve Jobs doesn’t give a shit about pointers. And he most certainly doesn’t give a shit about apps written for multiple platforms. What would an app written for cross-platform compatibilty look like on an iPhone? No other phone has a UI even vaguely like the iPhone’s. The only apps on the iPhone are Dashboard widgets and apps written specifically for the iPhone using Cocoa. This is to be considered a feature, not a limitation. If you consider it a limitation, the iPhone is not for you.

Jobs’s stated fear that opening the iPhone to third-party software might bring down Cingular’s network, on the other hand, sounds like poppycock. Plenty of other phone platforms allow third-party apps to run.

Also, regarding memory, it’s entirely possible that the iPhone’s OS X supports Objective C 2.0 with garbage collection. That’s not the same thing as Java-style managed code, but still.