Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 8th Mar 2008 19:07 UTC, submitted by Moochman
El Reg reports: "Less than a day after Apple unveiled its much-discussed iPhone SDK, Sun Microsystems has told the world it will build a Java Virtual Machine for Steve Job's handheld status symbol. 'We're very excited,' Eric Klein, Sun's vice president of Java marketing, told the The Reg. 'We've spent the last 24 hours furiously looking through what information was made publicly available, and we feel comfortable enough at this point on the information we have to commit the engineering resources to bring the JVM over to the iPhone and the iTouch as fast as our schedules and Apple's release schedule will allow.'" Sun plans to distribute the JVM free of cost via the App store.
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RE[2]: That didn't take long.
by SReilly on Sat 8th Mar 2008 19:52
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That sounds like a bummer. It's a beautiful phone alright but the lock in potential has curbed my interest in it so far.
As for .Net, it really wouldn't hurt MS to release a version for the iPhone. It would certainly add credibility to their interoperability claims so I wouldn't lose all hope.
RE[3]: That didn't take long.
by PlatformAgnostic on Sat 8th Mar 2008 22:30
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RE[2]: That didn't take long.
by StephenBeDoper on Mon 10th Mar 2008 18:22
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the way they handle voice mail is so obviously the way it should be done in the digital age, it is embarrassing that nobody came up with it before them.
It's a nice implementation, but it's not really unprecedented. I know several people who have have had "visual voicemail" setups for some time now, thanks to push-EMail and the voicemail-to-EMail forwarding that's offered with most VoIP services.
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As the official .net zealot on this site, I was downright itching to bite at that. Why did you have to make it so obviously a joke??
If I wasn't a .net guy with a serious outlook 2007 addiction, working at a business which is end to end microsoft, I would so own an iPhone, so it just goes to show that .net availablility does affect some people. Even with the abusive lock in policies it is hands down the most gorgeous phone on the market. Apart from the interface made of pure sex, and the only usable soft-keyboard on the market, the way they handle voice mail is so obviously the way it should be done in the digital age, it is embarrassing that nobody came up with it before them.
I just invested 700$ into a new HTC TyTN II though, so that has somewhat reduced my phone envy.