Optical drives are the modern floppy drive; too small to remain relevant. The iMac was the first PC to dump the floppy. USB flash drives and a good Internet con

Optical drives are the modern floppy drive; too small to remain relevant. The iMac was the first PC to dump the floppy. USB flash drives and a good Internet connection are the future. Flash and Java are really third-party products. It looks like Apple's handing the responsibility for them back to Adobe and Oracle. Flash on OS X has been a slow, buggy disappointment. If Adobe is serious about Flash on OS X, it needs to do more. Similarly, the Mac has a big enough market share that Oracle can do the work to port its Java to the Mac. Apple shouldn't have to shoulder that burden anymore. Apple's plan would appear to be "move forward, don't get stuck in the past".