Comments on: Sun aims for ultracheap cell phones

An alternative to a $100 laptop: Sun hopes selling JavaFX Mobile to phone makers will bring cheap Net access to the masses.

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

I'll bet they did

Year somone is trying to get through on my email and i the message is blocked. Oh well just one of many mysteries happening in my life.
ps NEVER GIVE IN
Also why would you call yourselves SUN.
Oh yes mobiles are better.
It just a shame noone knows hoow to make a decent global communicator version.
anyway year shift this story along due to me seeming to be beccomming of and imfamous blogger.
more like board so i type.

[Christopher Hall]

What on Earth?

Man, don't you know that crack kills?

[RLBrandt]

But what about monthly fees?

It's fine to have a cheap phone that can tap the internet, but what about the $100-per-month fees that the cell carriers charge? The article says sun is selling the technology to phone companies, but does not say anything about direct-to-internet access through wi-fi.

[BatmanG8]

anti-privacy Sun wants to sell telephones!?

Why don't they just get a nice big sledge hammer and hit
themselves in the head. It would be equally productive.

[Blito]

The original promise of Java

The whole point of Java was to keep it small and felxible in the beginning. Sure they developed a huge CLR around it now and that's great because it really competes with C++ but is that where we all really wanted to go as Java Developers? No.
We wanted a lightweight but powerful Internet language for websites to deploy quickly so hopefully JavaFX will do that and fulfill the original promise of Java.
basically Flash overtook Java in the late 90s and now hopefully Java will be allot more popular here.

[omninews]

Java Plug-in for cell phones

Flash has its niche, but it will never compete with Java in the b2b or b2c arena. Flash is still more display oriented, and although I would agree it is certainly has surpassed Java for advanced graphics on the web, it is still noway near as important as Java as a back-end, connective language.

JavaFX seems to me just another repeat of the saga that played out in the late 90s that eventually lead to the Java Plug-in for IE and other browsers. At first, each browser had its own implementation of the Sun JVM, which lead to the same problems mentioned in the article. For all the hype, this seems like a natural evolutionary step that was bound to happen. However, I disagree with Sun's attempt to license this however. Maybe they're having regrets over not monetizing Java Plugin after the suit with Microsoft. I think keeping the JVM license free was key to it's survival.

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