yes I am being selfish here - I enjoy OS-X as an engineers platform - the smoothness of it, yet jumping down into a reasonable unix (I have used BSD for a long time in the past) when I need to. And quality hardware, not unreasable prices for it too.
On Jun 8, 5:46 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 6/8/10 03:53 , Casper Bang wrote: > > > On Jun 8, 2:13 am, Michael Neale <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I remember back to the old "no java 6 for OS-X ZOMG !" days > >> fondly. But it seems OS-X isn't being neglected by apple for java > >> so much as just in general. Given that it is an important > >> developer platform - what are peoples thoughts on what is next? > >> (it seems clear, at least at this stage, apple are losing > >> interest - iOS is the future and development ON iOS (not for iOS) > >> is a non starter). > > The fact that Mac OS X is less and less under the focus of WWDC is a > well known trend arosen since when the iPhone came up. A good number > of long-time Apple afficionados, fond of the traditional computing, > have started complaining about that since a long time in the Apple > communities. > > Other afficionados, those still under the reality distortion field, > have started posting some sci-fi scenarios, with Apple switching yet > another time all its products (mainstream computing included) from Mac > OS X / Intel to the-new-OS (now called iOS 4) / A4, a microprocessor > that they believe is an original design (I mean the instruction set) > by Apple. They see the A4 evolving and kicking in the ass Intel for > performance in a few years, since they don't know that the RISC / CISC > distinction is fundamentally different than ten years ago, since when > Intel got a RISC core. Clearly they haven't yet elaborated the shock > of the Intel switch, that they still consider part of the "evil" > (after all Jobs said so, a few years ago) and have fantasies about a > "return to magnificent isolation" like at the PPC era. > > Back to reality, I agree that the focus of engineering and marketing > by Apple is now on A4 + iOS and this makes sense because of the > marketing scenario forecasts in the mid term. But to me it's quite > clear that A4 + iOS won't be ever competitive in terms of computing > power to Intel + Mac OS X (or whatever other OS), and there will be > always a good segment share of people needing a traditional computer > (such as engineers, for instance, or professional graphic / media > designers) that Apple won't let in the hands of Windows or Linux. Not > to speak of servers. So, I think that the relevant question is whether > this segment will be still in the hands of Apple in a few years, or if > they dismiss and sell it to some subsidiary. I opt for the former > option, especially if Android beats iOS. > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkwN9TwACgkQeDweFqgUGxd24ACeOS3Gr+iXuSpQwfky3u57fT21 > HpsAoID7uxLB2HUVLqMyvyqAyehu0Wz/ > =VGW7 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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.
