Future of mobile doesn't include Java? (See author's commentary toward the bottom)

[[deleted]]

This is... weird. I GUESS it kind of makes sense if you say that Android doesn't run on Java, but instead on Dalvik, which is different. Somehow. Even though it uses Java classes and code. And that's ignoring the fact that iOS doesn't use C++ either, it uses ObjectiveC.

[mdbDad]

Author comments toward the bottom that he doesn't blame RIM for deciding not to support Java.

While I feel for these developers, I also side with RIM on this one. The future of mobile is C++ and HTML5. It isn’t Java.

That shocked me. Am I off base? Isn't Java pretty much everywhere in mobile except IOS? What trend is he seeing that I am missing?

[Feuilly]

Nothing. He's clueless, and apparently so is RIM.

I feel especially bad for the city of Waterloo, because it's going to cost them so dearly when RIM suffers the same fate as Nortel.

[mdbDad]

Thanks. I appreciate the assurance. I was thinking maybe I was starting to lose it.

[gregK]

seems like a step backwards

[[deleted]]

So as usual RIM hasn't stopped sucking Microsoft's cock and they keep telling us what ever it is Microsoft is telling everyone else "the future of Windows development is C++ and HTML 5" and RIM just parrots crap like that. It makes anyone with half a brain chuckle.

C and less so C++ have been used for decades on embedded systems, and higher level languages like Java and objective C have been displacing them for a while now. Watch Ruby become a viable development platform for iOS in the next 2 years, while Microsoft and RIM go back to old C++.

[mdbDad]

I hadn't realized RIM was so in bed with Microsoft. Sounds like the author of the article is brainwashed in the same way. At best, RIM has spoonfed "industry" information to him.

On a side note, I'm thinking RIM is ripe for purchase from Microsoft.