On Sat, 03 May 2008 21:45:08 -0700, Thomas A. Russ wrote:
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> OK, first of all let me say that I'm a big Mac fan and amateur
> evangelist. But it can be really, really frustrating being a Java
> developer using a Mac. New Java versions appear with fairly long lag
> times on the Mac. For instance, Java 6 was JUST released this past
> week. (It was available as a developer build for a while longer.)
>
> Apple also infuriatingly tends to be very silent about the state of Java
> and their plans, so there was a great deal of uproar concerning the
> release of Java 6. Also, there is usually a tendency to not release the
> newest versions for older versions of the OS, so you do have to keep up
> with the latest OS releases. But that can be an issue for any software
> you want to distribute, since users who don't have the latest OS version
> won't have the latest Java either.
>
> This puzzles me greatly, since it seems, IMHO, that Apple stands to gain
> much more from the cross-platform nature of Java than Microsoft, and
> yet, Java is often a lot slower to appear on the Mac platform. I just
> don't get it at all.
So what you're saying is that I might be trading one set of hassles for
another? That's too bad. Macs really look nice these days. Maybe Apple
will fix this in the future. Is there someone I could send an email to
at Apple to let them know that this issue might lose them at least one
sale in the future?
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Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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