The move to server-based experiences made the Mac competitive and made iOS wildly useful despite not bundling jvm. I think what most helped it was that it was

The move to server-based experiences made the Mac competitive and made iOS wildly useful despite not bundling jvm. I think what most helped it was that it was the common language against early commercially-supported app servers from big vendors. BSD started as a Pascal compiler for Unix and enabled a community of researchers to work with a common language on machines more accessible than those from DEC. Bill was right that consumer-oriented products with server-side software had Java as the wind at their backs.