Amen! Somebody finally said it. I wanted to but couldn’t find a nice enough way to do so.
This situation is absolutely stupid and we shouldn’t be in it. I’m still coding my app for 1.4 because I don’t want to require my customers to pay Apple for an OS upgrade just to get 1.5. Now even if they upgrade to the latest OS I still can’t start looking at using the new features in 1.6.
The developer preview gave a lot of people hope but apparently Apple doesn’t get the meaning of the word “preview”. Usually that means that a full version is coming…
Paul Watson, Analyst Programmer
Ranger Data Technologies, Inc.
I think you guys are being apologists for Apple here. Java 6 has been available for over a year on every major platform. If you consider HPUX or even IBM's Java to be major platforms you're living in some bizzaro land. The product that my company sells (enterprise server software that costs 7 digit$) runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac. It is only the Mac that is stuck back on Java 5.
The pace at which Apple turns out innovation leaves absolutely no room to say "it must not be available because Apple's not happy with it's quality." Apple's "preview release" has been available for a year. It is clearly not available because it is not a priority for Apple. And hey, Apple is free to set their priorities however they want. My stock certainly isn't objecting. But make no mistake, they are screwing over Java developers in a big way. And from a Java developer's perspective there is no excuse for that. So stop apologizing and stop telling developers in so many polite words to effectively shut up. It is perfectly correct for Java developer's to be 1) upset, and 2) vocal. Plug your ears, and take off the cheerleader outfits, their ire is directed at Apple.
Brett
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