I was under the impression that Apple said they wouldn’t allow code parser such as Sun’s JVM on the iPhone.

Sun came to the conclusion it could make a JVM work on the iPhone after taking 24 hours to look at information on Apple’s SDK. Sun saw nothing in the public statements preventing the JVM from being one of the applications enabled on the iPhone, said Klein. Apple released the SDK in conjunction with the beta release if its iPhone 2.0 software; the general release of iPhone 2.0 is scheduled for June.

Everyone – including Sun wants to cash in on the iPhone. Wow, this is huge.

“Now, the iPhone is open” as a target platform, Klein said. The free JVM would be made available via Apple’s AppStore marketplace for third-party applications.

“We’re going to make sure that the JVM offers the Java applications as much access to the native functionality of the iPhone as possible,” he said.

“I think going forward, with the SDK, it takes out of Apple’s control which applications are ‘right’ for the iPhone,” Silva said.

Don’t you mean iTouch iPod touch?

“It’s a new platform for us. We might be able to bring additional technologies onto the iPhone and the iTouch,” Klein said.

[Via InfoWorld]