I wonder if Apple charged, say, an additional $200 fee to buy an OS X Mac with Java JDK pre-installed, if that would generate enough revenue to pay for the team at Apple that has maintained Java?
IOW, could Apple cater to software developer professionals who like to use their hardware for developing Java on, and have that burden of support pay for itself? Is the Java developer community that likes Mac hardware really too small a community to justify such an approach? I wonder if it is even something that Apple would entertain? Or is it that they actually prefer the anti-Java media attention and are wanting to stimulate that on purpose? Is just really strange that this year Apple in particular has embarked on one move after another that alienates software developers from their company, brand, and products. The other strange thing about it is that they evidently don't see any value in computer science - do they really believe that Objective C is going to carry their product line the rest of this century? That there is no need for any innovation to take place on their computers in the arena of computer science? Do they assume that they alone constitute enough innovation potential that they can safely ignore inviting other computer software professionals to embrace their computers and practice their profession on their hardware? I can understand Apple wanting to coddle consumers and provide them a virus-free, safe, and uncomplicated experience. But at the same time they are steering the future of individual computing products into a mode to where there will be no room and freedom for experimentation. Linux will be the last place left to where such freedom exist (am imagining that other players like Microsoft, Google, RIM, HP will all eventually embrace the locked down app store approach as a way to solve the computer virus problem). -- 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.
