On 10/25/2010 08:50 PM, phil swenson wrote:
well put, Reinier. Oracle will take over the JVM. If they are smart,
they'll work a deal with Apple to hire away some of their JVM
engineers and get the code base.
I can't imagine that Apple will do the "app store only" mac that
others are suggesting.
They would largely kill their mac business. This would mean you
couldn't do server side or web dev on a mac. This would also mean no
more photoshop, Fusion, Parallels, Microsoft Office, Google Chrome,
Firefox. So the rest of professional uses would be gone. Think about
Just for brainstorming... who tells us that they are still interested in
that market? They make only 33% of revenues out of standard computers
(I'd like to know how much from servers) and it's always dropping.
it. To lock it down the mac to an iOS only/app store only scenario -
you couldn't even develop iOS apps on it. To do iOS you need the
command line and XCode and the Unix stuff that goes along with it.
Now you need the command line and XCode. Who tells us that they aren't
working to a development environment that runs inside iOS?
Apple has to develop software and web sites and java code themselves.
They going to use Linux for dev in house?
PLUS: I'm no lawyer, but from what I see from the EU there would be
anti-trust issues. The EU is way more active than the US on stuff
like this. You can't just tell all the 1000s of mac developers out
there to change their business model, kick 30% to Apple or to F off.
I don't understand how the EU antitrust could deal with a corporate that
wants to stop a line of products.
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