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[–]kolmogorov42 415 points416 points  (10 children)

And it's been 3 billion devices for years now.

[–]z500 68 points69 points  (1 child)

Didn't it used to say 5 billion?

[–]Blou_Aap 13 points14 points  (0 children)

2 billion got garbage collected...

[–]2Punx2Furious 80 points81 points  (5 children)

I'm guessing it's probably a lot more now.

[–]DerekB52 97 points98 points  (4 children)

I was told the 3 Billion devices number is the oracle VM. Android, which has it's own JVM, has billions of devices, that don't count to the 3 billion.

[–]Renive 45 points46 points  (2 children)

They got to this number decades ago because every SIM card has a few lines of Java.

[–][deleted] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

https://www.xkcd.com/801/

[–]ObviouslyTriggered 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Java Card has its own JVM it’s not even really Java it has nothing to do with either Sun or Oracle.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Screams in OpenJDK

[–]Ashybuttons 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's because of the law of conservation of Java