JavaFX – better late than never ?
May 12th, 2008 by sharps
Sun was pushing JavaFX pretty hard at JavaOne this year – as it was last year; but still no actual product. My intial reaction to JavaFX (the scripting language formerly knows as F3) was pretty positive – but that was almost 2 years ago. The phrase “Better late than never” is true for Mother’s Day presents but rarely for technology competition. Unseating an incumbent is hard and expensive and the longer you leave it- the harder it gets.
I guess Sun see’s JavaFX as a cornerstone of it’s mobile strategy – which I still don’t get. I get that mobile devices are increasingly important – what I don’t get is how Sun thinks it can be come a comsumer electronics company nor why it feels it needs to. I’m not even completely sure about Java on mobile devices – I’ve spend the last 10 years with Java and was an early adopter of the cell phone and have lost count of the devices I’ve owned and the money I’ve spent on services. Yet I still haven’t seen a compelling / unique use for Java on a cell phone; and I simlply don’t buy that Java needs to become a consumer brand to become sucessful. It’s already wildly sucessful.
Java is one of the most sucessful enabling technologies ever but it it’s not a consumer brand.
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