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Point 2: Apple has a great deal of influence to kill a great deal. Recently they depreciated Java on the Mac. How many $30 desktop apps will you sell if users
by Supermighty 16y ago
Point 2:
Apple has a great deal of influence to kill a great deal. Recently they depreciated Java on the Mac.
How many $30 desktop apps will you sell if users also have to download a 200MB Java runtime?
Don't fool yourself, Apple has to power to drive adoption (USB) or kill it (Flash, Jave, et al).
- Aykroyd 16y agoMaybe, I'm mistaken but when I think of desktop Java apps pretty much the only significant ones that I come up with are IntelliJ (which I use) and Eclipse. And I'd much prefer something native to the resource hogging of IntelliJ. I don't think they're killing off a big industry by ditching java on the mac. It's just potentially going to make things more of a pain for those of us who write server-side java code on our Macs. Do you think their move will have an effect on that industry?
- chc 16y agoCyberduck is a very popular FTP client for the Mac, and Vuze is a fairly popular Bittorrent client on all platforms.
- tpinto 16y agoSince they don't own Java, they can't "deprecate" it. They are just ditching their own implementation of Java. According to them, because release cycles of Mac OS X and Java don't match, thus Java being generally a couple of versions late on the Mac. Windows don't ship with Java preinstalled and it isn't that big of a deal, people install it the first time they need it and that's it. That's what is going to happen on the Mac.