Please, we've all made our points. Can we get back to either:
a) Issues with the software we DO have, or
b) Where you will be buying me a pint, the chances of Pint 6, and
Apple's stance on supporting me after Pint 7.
Seriously though, please discuss this to your heart's content on those
blogs, it's your right but I think we've done this one to death here.
Bug
On 29 Oct 2007, at 20:46, Story Henry wrote:
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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