The flow you describe above is exactly how Java Webstart or MS OneClick works. Why does not Sun or Micro$oft get sued?

- How about Java ME that 95% of the other phones already supports, and so that I finally run programs developed at my company.
- Flash so that I could browse the web.
- Stop forcing developers to upload applications to appstore and to pay fees for a account and SDK.

Mostly bullshit!

Swing/AWT is not slow, it's just that there are lots of incompetent programmers out there making Java look bad.
Many things are not hardware accelerated becouse of stabillity issues, if you want you can enable OpenGL and DirectX accelerations. The plattform Look'n Feel is improving with every release, 1.6 beta2 looks nice in GNOME and XP for me.
What other choise do we have? .GNU? hardly keeping up. Mono? Still lacking many 2.0 features!

I realy think this move will put more pressure on Microsoft, hopefully (in my dream) they will release .NET/C# opensource too. Just to keep up with Java.