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Re: Quite a show!

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Subject: Re: Quite a show!
From: email@hidden
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:33:27 -0700

TJB wrote: | This is not an area that Apple should mess with.

What, exactly, is "this", and why shouldn't Apple mess with it?

| Java is much to important

To you, maybe. Apple has to consider Java in the context of *selling
Macintoshes*, where it is far less important.

Are-you sure that "Apple has to consider Java in the context of *selling Macintoshes*" ?


I am not sure of that...


I even dont feel that this is what Apple runs after !
(Does Apple runs after something ?)


Things are done, but to achieve what purpose ? (only God knows but only because he is God)


I feel - but I am not sure that I really feel that - that Apple do some business in order to be profitable (at last a bit) and to have a good NASDAQ value per share (not really sure about that part).

Beyond that nothing exists.


Because, Operating System is (one important part of) the core of a computer, Apple _have_ to update it from here to there. In order to sale it, Apple _have_ to add some biew bits here and there.

No more, no less.


For hardware, the answer is the same since this is the other important part of the core of a computer. (In fact, OS and Hardware have to be considered one and only thing even if you can buy it separately).


Java here is just like what was A/UX many years ago: just a reason for people to buy Apple Hardware + OS; a product on the shelf; something Apple _have_ to have to sell.


Now, how good Apples Java implementation have to be is just a matter of taste (from Apple Business view). If they have the feeling that a better implementation is better for their goal, they will do one, otherwise, things will be as usual.

Take a look at HyperCard for example (but look back the Apple history and check the product they have all along those years).

Cheers,

Emile


PS: If you feel I'm a bit cynic there, I am sorry, but this is the way business seems to be nowadays:

"We have a goal to achieve: no more, no less".
(If things does not match our goal, forget it.)
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