Story: Sun's Mobile Blunders
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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Sun Java - Ignore That Guy in Your Presentation
This was a dev tool, a high-level dev tool that made mobile development easier. If Java can be the easiest way to write mobile apps for future phones, then the JVM will win and Sun will get more licenses. But before they ship it, there's a problem. A person called R, how well mentioned his name, just R, was very adamantly against us releasing this product. And he said, if we'll build a tool to package mobile applications, it's sort of stealing their business.
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