Someone pointed out in an earlier thread that one should not complain
here. So I thought I'd make post some links to some repercussions
around the web of the silence on java 6.
Now I have a feeling that Java 6 is on the road to being released. But
a lot of developers whose livelihood depends on Java and who were able
to gain a cool factor by using OSX are very disappointed, and the
silence is not helping. There are workarounds of course, but the
simplest workaround would be for apple to make a statement and, even
better, to make a a developer preview available. The developers would
have a reason to buy Leopard and help help you fix bugs!
I understand the pressure Apple must have been under to release
Leopard. One can see that things did not go smoothly from the many
glitches left over, and the inconsistencies in different places. But
to see things this way requires faith.
And here the problem is that Steve Jobs' statement "Java’s not worth
building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball
and chain.” http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/ultimate-iphone-faqs-list-part-2/
is fanning the flames of conspiracies, and reawakening old ghosts
about Apple's closed nature that had been mostly put to rest with the
Open Sourcing of the OSX kernel.
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