I have less of a problem that Java6 is 64-bit only. Anyone who bought
into the intel macs before the 64-bit CPUs were out was, I hate to say
it, a sucker.
However, what I do have a problem with is that the G5 computers, which
were sold until not that long ago, were sold with the 64-bit promise
and hoopla.
Guess what, by the time we finally have an OS and a JVM that does make
it possible to have real 64-bit apps, that CPU platform is no longer
supported.
I know people who bought G5 servers for lots of money (with XServe
RAIDs, etc) with the expectation that within the time frame of the
Leopard update, they could upgrade their applications to run in a 64-
bit address space. Now they are supposed to throw out perfectly
workable hardware, just to get the 64-bit capability that they bought
the machines for.
Note: last I checked (correct me if I'm wrong) 64-bit Java5 is intel
only, too, there's no PPC version of 64-bit Java anywhere.
64-bit is the future, and with a relatively small number of users
excepted, most Mac users have 64-bit capable systems, be that G5 or
Core2 based machines. So a 64-bit only Java-6 would make sense, but a
intel 86x64 only Java-6 does not make sense, except from Apple's POV,
cause it cuts cost.
I rather have an unsupported version for PPC and live with some bugs,
than have nothing at all, so the QA reasoning is for the birds, as far
as I'm concerned.
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