The Deprecation

The Deprecation If you're reading this blog then there's a good chance you've heard Apple has deprecated their implementation of Java on the Mac. Contrary to the resulting outrage over the last few days, I don't find change to be a shocking surprise. Ultimately Apple puts in the technology that will let them sell more computers. As a consumer company they support technology that runs consumer apps. The desktop Java community simply hasn't created the thousands of consumer apps that exist on the Mac or the iPhone. these are almost entirely Cocoa or straight C+ OpenGL apps. We are to blame I challenge you to come up with even a list of 100 consumer apps written in Java. With significant desktop Java apps Apple simply has no incentive to continue funding their Java port. The truth is, desktop Java has been dying for years, and Apple has finally accepted it. And I say this as someone who's worked on desktop Java for nearly my entire professional career. Desktop Java is dying, and it is our fault. There are a variety of reasons for Java's failure on the desktop; reasons ranging from Sun to IBM to Swing to Deployment bugs and many other causes. I won't rehash them here because the end result is the same: no significant consumer desktop Java apps after nearly 15 years. Apple simply made a pragmatic decision to no longer support a technology that costs them more than it brings in. No Steve Job...

Date: October, 25 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2010/10/25

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