Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcm9pZOKAlFdoeSBEYWx2aWs/?= Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 23:17:31 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: TUXTYYqX1yG7hs3zxUg7ng.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4695 On 5/28/2011 9:56 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message, Roedy Green wrote: > >> They are doing the old IBM lockin game. They don't want Android apps >> running elsewhere or being easily ported there. > > Android is already running on a bewildering variety of devices—e-book > readers, game console, media players, TVs, smartphones and tablets (of > course)—even a washing machine. There have been a number of devices that > dual-boot between Android and Windows; there is even a company looking at > implementing it as a stack running directly on top of Windows (good luck to > them). > > There is no “lockin” anywhere. Android is being so wildly successful > precisely because it is so open and flexible. Google may not be keen on all > the things being done with it, but the beauty of it is it’s not their > decision. Hello; I do not know anything about Andriod version of Java. But if one writes an Andriod application, can one take the Java source code and compile it with Java (the standard Java) and run it on say window 7 or linux or the mac? thanks --Nasser