On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Kustaa Nyholm
<email@hidden> wrote:
It is likely that is all he can say about the future direction via a
public channel. Of course plans could change to include more 32-bit
support but ONLY if enough of a need exists in the market which I just
don't see IMHO (the days of PowerPC and 32-bit are quickly being
eclipsed by Intel 64-bit and of course Apple would love to sell new
systems for those folks that need have the latest and greatest
software).
Given the stated direction of Snow Leopard and that Java 6 is Intel
64-bit currently I think it is highly unlikely any further _new_
development will happen on the 32-bit Java front or PowerPC front.
Java 5 and Java 1.4.2 cover the needs of a vast majority of Apple's
users that are on 32-bit or PowerPC systems, expanding Java 6 support
would add little value to these folks. Now some segments of the market
are going to more negatively affected by this then others (education
with limited budgets and developers with limited budgets come to
mind).
-Shawn
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