Comments on: AT&T drops Java on mobile phones, Sun updates JavaFX to no avail

Java is the enterprise language of choice. It seems that it has less to offer the mobile phone ecosystem.

[AppleSuxLeo]

Symbian is by far the best mobile OS.It is the most common worldwide for many good reasons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian_OS

[AppleSuxLeo]

There is a strong emphasis on conserving resources, using Symbian-specific programming idioms such as descriptors and a cleanup stack. There are similar techniques for conserving disk space (though the disks on Symbian devices are usually flash memory). Furthermore, all Symbian OS programming is event-based, and the CPU is switched off when applications are not directly dealing with an event. This is achieved through a programming idiom called active objects. Similarly the OS approach to threads vs. processes is driven by reducing overheads.
Symbian OS EKA2 supports sufficiently-fast real-time response such that it is possible to build a single-core phone around it?that is, a phone in which a single processor core executes both the user applications and the signalling stack. This is a feature which is not available in Linux. This has allowed SymbianOS EKA2 phones to become smaller, cheaper and more power efficient

[Pili777]

"dream of monetizing mobile phones is clearly out the window with the largest wireless carriers"
ATT is the 10th largest operator worldwide. The Top 9 routinely use Java. It's not that Java does not have issues, but most of these (fragmentation) come from its success the only crossplatform/OS app environment out there.