Reading more commentary, a number of people point out that the Mac App store will not accept apps based on 'deprecated or optionally installed' runtimes. So maybe that is what it is all about.
Alternatively, Apple just don't feel like they should have to maintain the JVM for themselves any more, now that they have a 23% share of the PC market. On 2010-10-22, at 08:45, P T Withington wrote: > You think that is it? > > It seems rather mysterious to me. OS X had gained a reputation for being a > nice Java dev environment, because it came all pre-installed. If they really > drop distributing it, it will become just as much a pain to use as Java on > Windows. And who knows if Oracle will end up relegating the OS X > distribution to the backwaters (the way it was in the bad old days). > > I wonder what Apple intends Java developers to do? > > On 2010-10-21, at 20:14, Raju Bitter wrote: > >> Well, Sun had been planning a Java Runtime based store implementation >> for quite some time. Steve is probably afraid of having another store >> on his OS. >> http://www.java.com/en/store/intl-contact.jsp >> The Java Store provides an easy and secure means of discovering and >> acquiring compelling Java applications. Social networking, games, >> productivity tools and business applications are examples of what you >> will be able to download from the Java Store. >> >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:20 PM, P T Withington <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3 and 10.5 Update 8 Release Notes: New and >>> Noteworthy >>> >>> http://bit.ly/afFaOj >>> >>>> Java Deprecation >>>> >>>> As of the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, the version of Java >>>> that is ported by Apple, and that ships with Mac OS X, is deprecated. >>>> >>>> This means that the Apple-produced runtime will not be maintained at the >>>> same level, and may be removed from future versions of Mac OS X. The Java >>>> runtime shipping in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, >>>> will continue to be supported and maintained through the standard support >>>> cycles of those products. >>> >>> I take this to mean that Apple is going to shut out Java the way it has >>> shut out Flash? Or that Steve and Larry are not as good friends as FSJ >>> would have us believe? >>> >
