Re: Java and Apple

On Oct 17, 2007, at 14:12 , Brendon McLean wrote:

With any other company this would be a rational concern. But Apple is a company that values secrecy above absolutely everything else, including profit, reputation and goodwill.

The most likely outcome of events is a Leopard release with Java 6 released on Leopard a week to two later. Probably, it will be like 1.5 on Tiger and ship as an optional non-default download in the beginning. I'm just speculating, but one does tend to read the tea-leaves with some degree of accuracy after a while.

And it's not just restricted to Java. I know a photographer who has just switched from Apple's Aperture to Adobe Lightroom because he has no idea when the 40D will be supported. The tea-leaves tell me it will be this week with 10.4.11 and in Leopard but some people need more than that.

In the meantime there's nothing to do but speculate.

... which means that I probably have to start thinking of using Ubuntu Gitsy Gibbon for my presentation at JavaPolis.

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