You said: "[b]ecause Apple's dev tools have always had such a huge impact on the software development industry". I simply provided a single example that refute

You said: "[b]ecause Apple's dev tools have always had such a huge impact on the software development industry". I simply provided a single example that refuted your conjecture that Apple had no influence in the development world. It's irrelevant what either one of us thinks of Java or its future; Java was a significant, mainstream development tool and it was impacted by Apple development technologies.