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On the other side 16 million Java users sounds like a small amount. In the advertising literature you see claims of billions of devices running the environment,
by frozenport 9y ago
On the other side 16 million Java users sounds like a small amount. In the advertising literature you see claims of billions of devices running the environment, and the language is used is used in a few hundred million more embedded devices.
- mgkimsal 9y agoIt would only take a handful of users at one phone manufacturer to get a JRE on millions of devices. It was this sort of "billions of devices!" claim years ago that sort of rubbed me the wrong way. Going back to early/mid 2000s, that hype was all over the place, but could you install your own code on those devices? Generally not. Having a JRE on 500 million set-top boxes does very little for the Java developer population's ability to deploy code - it only help(s|ed) the developers employed at the set-top box company.
- coldtea 9y agoIt's also that those devices are generally devices noone cares about. Featurephones, set-top boxes, etc.
- coldtea 9y ago2 programmers can write some embedded software Java that runs on 1 billion devices.