posted 8 years ago
Because the language designers decided that upper bounds on type parameters weren't useful, and therefor should not be allowed. Using the extends keyword, you can put lower bounds on type parameters and wildcards, but you can put upper bounds only on wildcards (e.g. Comparator<? super T>).
Type parameters are mostly useful so you can return specific types. Using the super keyword would return less specific types, and so is not very useful.