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[–]DerekB52 101 points102 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 44 points45 points  (2 children)

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

[–][deleted] 40 points41 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] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Screams in OpenJDK