Does the iPhone support Java applications?
Not natively. In fact, in an interview with the New York Times shortly after the introduction of the iPhone, Steve Jobs openly attacked the idea of Java applications on the device, saying “Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.” As as result, as originally published on February 5, 2007, EveryiPod.com speculated that: With such opposition from Steve Jobs, it is all but certain that the iPhone will never support Java applications or applets. Nevertheless, when the iPhone SDK was introduced on March 6, 2008, Sun Microsystems announced that the company would develop a Java Virtual Machine for the iPhone, intended to “make sure that the JVM offers the Java applications as much access to the native functionality of the iPhone as possible”, and would release it free of charge. However, questions quickly emerged about whether or not a Java environment would be permitted under Apple’s developers terms. By April 24, 2008, Sun continued t
No. In fact, in an interview with the New York Times shortly after the introduction of the iPhone, Steve Jobs openly attacked the idea of Java applications on the device, saying “Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.” As as result, as originally published on February 5, 2007, EveryiPod.com speculated that: With such opposition from Steve Jobs, it is all but certain that the iPhone will never support Java applications or applets. Nevertheless, when the iPhone SDK was introduced on March 6, 2008, Sun Microsystems announced that the company would develop a Java Virtual Machine for the iPhone, intended to “make sure that the JVM offers the Java applications as much access to the native functionality of the iPhone as possible”, and would release it free of charge. However, questions quickly emerged about whether or not a Java environment would be permitted under Apple’s developers terms. By April 24, 2008, Sun continued to express
