This includes most of the low-cost phones currently being sold in China and India. There is a fair amount of evidence corroborating the "3 Billion devices" powered by Java - in fact there are likely be close to that number running Java ME (Micro Edition).
In truth the number of Windows PCs sold by year isn't the best number, but generally OEM machines generally ship with Java installed by default so this is a soft number to work with.ģ Billion seems reasonable based on the number of Java ME and Android devices in use. This is another point that leads to the 3 billion devices claimed perhaps being a conservative estimate. back in 2008, others have noted totalĬumulative sales of about 5 billion units containing embedded Java based programs that can be run on various devices. One of the biggest areas of use of Java is in which is used to for bonus content on Blu-ray disks which is why Blu-ray players must support Java. With regards to some specific claims, Blu-ray players have to support 
1, etc.) but the figure they give in the setup actually seems to be fairly conservative. These numbers can be drilled down into a bit more (e.g.
Java powers set-top boxes, printers, Web cams, games, car navigation systems, lottery terminals, medical devices, parking payment stations, and more. 1.4 billion Java Cards are manufactured each year. 31 times more Java phones ship every year than Apple and Android combined. 930 million Java Runtime Environment downloads each year. There is actually some more detail on this on the Java website:
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