The Mac is becoming nothing but a big iPhone (without the phone or touch
capabilities) for your desk. It's no longer a general computing
platform -- it's becoming just another form factor for an utterly closed
consumer device with a walled garden market.
I don't think Apple wants Java on it any more than they want it on the
iPhone -- and it's unclear whether it is worth Oracle's while to fight this.
Sure we all want Java to be ubiquitous. But when a vendor goes this far
to drive everyone else off their platforms and, unlike Microsoft, does
not dominate desktop computing, how far do you go?
Perhaps there's a backroom deal floating that will come to light soon,
but it really sounds like any attempts at such a deal just plain fell apart.
On 10/22/2010 6:43 AM, CKoerner wrote:
Its time for Oracle to step up to ITS responsibility and make the JVM
for the Mac. If they do it for Linux and Windows then they damn well
should do it for the MAC.
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