I feel betrayed
October 27, 2007 | In Uncategorized |I gave my digital life to Apple and now they won’t give me Java 6? I totally expected to upgrade all my Macs to Leopard and have a nice, shiny Java 6 to try our software on.
Does the word “Preview” mean anything to Apple? They had a Java 6 Preview for a looong time. Now even that is gone. A “Preview” usually means that something is going to be released in the near future.
Instead of Java 6 they are giving me some Ruby stuff I just as easily could have installed from MacPorts?
There won’t be any new big cats in my house, that’s for sure. I will even consider killing the Tigers, Ubuntu-style.
Apple is killing Java on Macs. They will lose customers. Think about the enterprise sector. There are a lot of Java Swing applications running as clients to Java EE servers in big corporations and governmental organizations. Apple need Java to get into those places.
All I ask for is a roadmap. Please? I sort of liked the cat.
Update: 13949712720901ForOSX
2 Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI
Leave a comment
Archives:
- October 2009 (3)
- October 2008 (1)
- September 2008 (5)
- June 2008 (1)
- May 2008 (3)
- April 2008 (2)
- March 2008 (1)
- January 2008 (2)
- December 2007 (1)
- November 2007 (2)
- October 2007 (2)
- August 2007 (2)
- July 2007 (3)
- June 2007 (3)
- May 2007 (2)
- March 2007 (2)
- February 2007 (4)
- November 2006 (2)
- October 2006 (3)
- September 2006 (4)
- August 2006 (3)
- July 2006 (2)
- June 2006 (7)
- May 2006 (13)
Links
- Javablogs
- Mazarin Ltd - Our partner company in Sri Lanka
- nSpike AB - My company
- Web Worker Daily - Community for creative people working from home
[…] As several people have written before, there is no Java 1.6 in the new Mac OS. What a stupid move. At most developer conferences concerning Java people have been and are using Apple laptops. Now in the last release, Leopard, they don’t even mention Java any more. But they shout “Work in a developer’s dreamland.” They said this some years ago about Java. Now it’s Ruby on Rails. They not even once mention Java on their feature page, but “Leopard is the perfect platform for Ruby on Rails development, with Rails, Mongrel, and Capistrano built in.” Don’t they know the Rails hype is over? Really. It is. Today most big RoR applications are into legacy land. Funny that three companies with Ruby on Rails recently offered me CTO jobs - I guess you have to bring some maintenance talent. They have to deal with new problems after some years of RoR. That’s another story and should be told different time. Back to Java. There are so many more companies buying Apple laptops for Java development than for Rails development. And as Alex said: […]
Pingback by Java and Apple: Fallen from love at Stephans Blog — October 27, 2007 #
[…] Se pueden ver numerosas protestas de usuarios que se sienten traicionados. Desde luego es una buena táctica para perder mercado, y alejarse totalmente del sector empresarial. Tarde o temprano, supongo, que deberá soportarlo pues no es que sea una tecnología minoritaria que digamos. Eso si, en vez de eso, Leopard te incluye de serie Ruby y Ruby on Rails, parece ser que no se han enterado que ha muerto. […]
Pingback by Bicosyes - since evermore… » Blog Archive » Apple vs Sun, Leopard sin soporte para Java 6 — October 30, 2007 #