On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Robert Casto <[email protected]>wrote:
> I think you are wrong about Java on the Mac. It didn't do well because of > Apple. They never kept up with releases and didn't bother to put much effort > into it. You can't blame Java for that. I'm surprised Sun didn't take Apple > to task about getting updates out there quicker. > > What really sucks about Java on the Mac (disclosure: I am a very happy Mac Pro massive-powerhouse-of-a-machine owner) is that Steve Jobs stood with McNealy at JavaOne in 2001 (I think that was the one; I was there, but I'm not sure of the year) and said that he was going to make the Mac the best platform for Java development. Now, I love my Mac, and now that we *finally* have Java 1.6 it's great. But for years, advanced Java was not as easy to do because of Apple's glacially slow pace at getting JDKs out the door. My wish for the past three years has been that Apple would just let Sun handle the JDK for OSX, but that never happened. I would still rather develop Java (or anything, for that matter) on my Mac than on Windows, I just wish Sun had been in charge of JDK development for OSX instead of Apple, who clearly lost interest along the way. Joey -- Blog: http://joeygibson.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/joeygibson FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/joeygibson Facebook: http://facebook.com/joeygibson -- 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.
