Posts by Alex 37 2 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Oct 2010
I'm not crying about the death of Java dev tools for OS X 10.x I'm crying about Steve Jobs cutting Java out of a growing market - Apple hardware. I'm calling for a signal to be sent to the Bill Gates wannabe so we have more customers for our Java applications. I don't have time to learn another language, I have a family to start.
I already dual boot Windows XP and Mac OS X
Like I wrote n Slashdot comments, I am writing music notation and playback software using Java. The one program is tested on OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.11 and Windows XP. It uses a powerful rule engine called Java Expert System Shell (JESS) via its Java API. I have a lot invested in Java and I will not search for another rule engine for Objective-C, if it even exists at all.
If Apple kills and blocks the Java ecosystem in its products, I will dump the Apple ecosystem. Mr. Steve Jobs, you will have become worse than Bill Gates, vying for complete control over developers. I will sell off my Macbook Pro, my old G4 tower and iPod shuffle and cancel my planned upgrades of all three. Windows and Linux will be the new homes I have NEVER called home before. I used to own an Apple II long ago showing my support for principled companies…
I will encourage all those who bought into the ever closing Mac ecosystem, to leave it. I hope the Apple Board and Apple’s shareholders will stay awake at night because of the exodus until they support Java in all their products and help make it better.
As a GUI API, Java works perfectly. It makes multiplatform development easy for the small business. Steve Jobs doesn’t care about small businesses anymore. He cares about his Objective-C.
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