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Thing is Google were also nasty towards Sun and helped it go under quite well. In many ways this is karma but too bad there's so much externality to it.
by fierarul 6y ago
Thing is Google were also nasty towards Sun and helped it go under quite well. In many ways this is karma but too bad there's so much externality to it.
- tmccrary55 6y agoIIRC they were going to use the reference impl of Java but Sun wanted to inject themselves and the Java brand all over Android. Plus Sun couldn't design a decent UI to save their lives, so Android probably wouldn't have been successful if Google had allowed Sun a large role in the platform.
- pjmlp 6y agoActually they did, but too many developers are lazy to buy books and apply their learnings. http://filthyrichclients.org/ http://filthyrichclients.org/ From the same Chet Haase and Romain Guy that went into Android's GUI framework after Sun went under. And for mobile there was https://docs.oracle.com/javame/dev-tools/lwuit-1.3/LWUIT_Developer_Guide_HTML/index.html https://docs.oracle.com/javame/dev-tools/lwuit-1.3/LWUIT_Dev... Plus, Google could have done just like any other OS vendor does with ISO C and ISO C++, plus whatever OS APIs they feel like adding.
- tmccrary55 6y agoYeah I don't think the problem with Sun's UI stuff was an individual or a group but probably big corp politics.
- zeroxfe 6y agoAs much as I loved Sun workstations and Solaris, I'm pretty sure Sun went under all by itself.
- pjmlp 6y agoWith the Java licenses that Google have stolen from them, they could have eventually survived.