Sun To Build World's Biggest App Store Around Java 325
CWmike writes "Sun Micro plans to launch an App Store that could make Apple's look smaller than a 7-Eleven by comparison, CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote on his blog this week. Schwartz indicated the Java App Store, code-named Project Vector, will focus on PC users and estimated the size of the community at 1 billion. Sun plans to allow Java application developers to submit programs to a simple Web site so the company can evaluate them for safety and content before presenting them to the Java audience. Sun will charge for distribution. The company will reveal more details at its JavaOne conference, which opens June 2 in San Francisco, Schwartz said."
I was (Score:5, Funny)
Required sales pitch... (Score:5, Funny)
Would you like an Oracle database with that?
I wonder if it'll be coded in Java... (Score:5, Funny)
...so I could suffer the meta-frustration of waiting for a Java applet to load so I could then buy some Java applets and wait for them to load.
Re:I wonder if it'll be coded in Java... (Score:5, Funny)
Yo dawg I heard you like waiting so we put Java apps in your Java store so you can wait while you wait
Re:Software repository... (Score:5, Funny)
All the programs are written in Java. It's more like a software *suppository*....
oh great.. (Score:2, Funny)
It'll crash every other browser at random times with strange exception errors, will take 10 minutes to load a page, I'm just so for it..
Taking bets now (Score:2, Funny)
I'm taking bets... what's going to be slower, Sun's Java App Store or Adobe's Marketplace?
The only upside is I'll go outside and get a life while waiting for a craptastic widget to download.
Re:I was (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Meh. (Score:3, Funny)
You missed the point. They aren't just going to sell Java apps there, they're going to sell all kinds of apps. And, judging by phrases like "... network service to connect companies of all sizes and types to the roughly one billion Java users all over the world", they're just going to bundle it with JRE and /or JavaFX, and then hope that the install base for the latter is enough to make people come to them looking for a distribution channel.
I seriously doubt that will work out. If anything, it's just going to be one less reason for people to bother with desktop Java. As if putting a "Yes, I want to install OpenOffice" option in the JRE installer, and checked by default, wasn't a stupidest idea already...
Re:Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Funny)
Really? Why's it use so much CPU and memory? :o
(sorry! Had to!)
One week from now... (Score:5, Funny)
One year from now...
- Sun announces closure of app store. Notable achievement: 6 popular apps
- Microsoft announces wildfire success.
Note: They also announce the rollout of their 3rd DRM scheme in hopes of ending the massive piracy rates on apps coming from the store.
Re:You forgot something (Score:5, Funny)
ED is the standard text editor.
Re:I was (Score:0, Funny)
I was going to write a first post, but I got high.
Re:I was (Score:5, Funny)
you must be new here.
Re:Go Java! (Score:5, Funny)
Hsssshssssssssthhhhhh!!
(This message written and authorized by the Annoying Python Evangelists' Club).
Re:I wonder if it'll be coded in Java... (Score:5, Funny)
The jokes were written in Java, they just finished loading.
Duke's pet store? (Score:2, Funny)
So, Sun will finally go live with their pet store.
Re:I wonder if it'll be coded in Java... (Score:5, Funny)
usability (Score:3, Funny)
Those who dismiss usability and design (and the network effect!!) under the gauzy umbrella of "marketing"
You're so right; he should have pointed out that App Store succeeded despite its numerous usability problems.
Re:Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny)
I thought it was about java being slower than C.
Re:I wonder if it'll be coded in Java... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Redundant. (Score:2, Funny)
Really? You can't be bothered to type the rest of the phrase, but your filler text is longer?
Slashdot, home of the unintentionally ironic meta-joke. I think I'll go shoot myself now, m'kay?
Finally... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:You forgot something (Score:2, Funny)
yeah, if you're stupid and don't know how to code.
Isn't that why you would be coding in Java in the first place?
Re:I wonder if it'll be coded in Java... (Score:5, Funny)
-Knock Knock!
-Who's there?
[...long pause...]
-Java!
Re:I wonder if it'll be coded in Java... (Score:5, Funny)
Just in time.
Re:Software repository... (Score:2, Funny)
Actually. I'm sure I don't want to know.
In Other News: (Score:4, Funny)
The Debian Project has announced the creation of an Apt Store. This exciting repository will allow users to get whatever packages they need without even touching their mice.
Ob (Score:3, Funny)
Are you referring to the date when you click on it, or when it opens?
It's a Sun Initiative (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Go Java! (Score:5, Funny)
I wasn't aware dogs balls were a standard unit of speed?
Re:Go Java! (Score:5, Funny)
That's how you become a real man, son. Not a quiche eating pansy boy.