So as I stated before - I guarantee Oracle will port to OS X. 20% of the US consumer market + 10% of the overall market is too big to ignore.
The real problem here is apple pulled an a-hole move. They just said it's deprecated. They didn't inform oracle and come up with a transition story. That would have been the professional thing to do. No one would be upset if the story was "Oracle is taking over Mac development of the JVM". On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Christian Catchpole <christ...@catchpole.net> wrote: > Exactly. I think Apple were very generous (you could argue it sold > Macs, but still). If this has as big an impact as we fear it will you > can blame no one but Snoracle. If anything it points out how painful > Swing integration is. Of course, I'm sure its more than that - NIO, > memory management etc all have platform specific optimisations. But > most of us develop server apps on our Macs but depend on Swing to > power our IDEs. > > Oracle, if Java is all you say it is, why should Apple's move be a > problem. > > On Oct 22, 10:09 pm, CKoerner <chessm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Well the cats out of the bag now. They were lucky that Apple did their >> work for so long. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
