Michael Kimsal wrote: > > > Apple clearly does not care all that much about any portability > technologies -- they care about their own branding, eye candy, and > unique value proposition. Portability is critical to real use, > but it is "me too" stuff in Apple's book. > > > Agreed, just like MS doesn't either, regardless of whatever rhetoric > they put out. Microsoft clearly has no more love for cross-platform anything than Apple -- and probably less.
The difference is that so many other people and companies care about getting all that cross-platform stuff running on Windows that most of it works there with little to no delay. For instance, Sun has to release Java on Windows in a timely and quality manner -- or Java would be dead. Windows near monopoly, however evil ensures that cross-platform technology makes its way there one way or another. On the Mac, some things get there and some don't and some take their sweet time about it -- as there's no market force to ensure anything better occurs. -- Jess Holle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
