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In message <irtu02$bso$1@news.albasani.net>, BGB wrote:

> ... there is always J2ME ...

Which is unsuited to modern ultramobile devices, as pointed out earlier.

> potential developer: "but what about AWT and Swing and these other APIs
> I might want to use?"
> response: "well, for these things you use our vastly improved
> foo.gui.manager (it has Pointy/Clicky TM) and other custom APIs...".
> 
> at this point it would likely start to look a bit like someone trying
> simply to use the Java trademark as a selling point.

Which Google has been careful to avoid.