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Coca Cola and Java

If Java powers 4.5 billion devices including 800 million computers, 1.5 billion mobile devices and 2.2 billion smart cards, then more people use Java than the number of people who have EVER tasted Coca Cola ONCE.

Relatively speaking, Java is unknown. Why?

Comments

• I'd say that if a person can afford a mobile device (or anything with a smart card), than most probably he tasted Coca Cola. It's not a one-to-one (more than 1 device per person).

  Posted by: kirillcool on April 24, 2007 at 10:49 AM

• Java is a programming language, a specialized niche if I've ever heard of one, unlike "Coca-cola" which is a consumer brand, and heavily marketed as such. That being said, the term "Java" or its derivatives have slowly been pemeating into the every day consumer world in those areas where it plays a strong role in the marketing of a consumer devices. Examples would include "J2ME" in mobile devices and "BD-Java" or "BD-J" int he world of high-definition discs.

  Posted by: asj2006 on April 24, 2007 at 01:34 PM

• There are two things here ; first up aint it easy to taste coke than to work on/use Java ?
  Second would be that there aint any comparison , it aint good to compare and apple with Jennifer Lopez :) if u get what I mean !

  Posted by: shakthidharan on April 25, 2007 at 04:15 AM

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