The removal of Java was perhaps the best example of people expecting Apple's obsolescence policy to be the same as Windows, and getting burned. There were larg

The removal of Java was perhaps the best example of people expecting Apple's obsolescence policy to be the same as Windows, and getting burned. There were large software vendors who had not yet started on a strategy around the deprecation of Java until it was removed from the OS. They didn't look like they even noticed it had been removed in betas and come up with a plan on what to tell customers.