So, no Java 1.6 on my 32bit PPC machine. Totally pisses me off. But I understand why. The simple fact is that iPods and iPhones make more money for Apple than whiny Java developers. Oh la di da, we bought a laptop from Apple. That totally makes it worthwhile for Apple to drop billion dollar projects like the iPhone and focus on men with beards who only run Linux on their servers because of “freedom and stuff”.

Java developers are a million plus group of people and yet are probably completely irrelevant to Apple. They crunched the numbers and we got beat by 14 year old girls who like pink ponies and who thinks John Mayer is totally dreamy. This is all marked economics. How many Java developers run OS X server ? Oh, wait, you're talking about the desktop API ? Swing ? The API that Sun ignored for five years ? Now it's all about cowbell and stuff they tell me.

Maybe I sound like a douche here, but Apple simply made a business decision and us Java guys got cut from the budget. Start deploying on Apple hardware and maybe Apple would listen. Java 1.6u10 is not Java 1.6u10. It's “Java on the Desktop 1.0”. This is why people are bitching. The Sun promise from 1998 is finally here and Apple stopped caring a long time ago.

Blame Sun, not Apple. If you think this is all bullshit, start reading stock tickers. Both Sun and Apple got a ton of cash. But Apple got the balls to move in a new direction. Sun buys MySQL (with $50m annual revenue) for (evil pinky) one billion dollars. Now THAT is radical. Now Sun has two open source databases under partial semi-permanent control.

Sun focuses on the server and Apple focuses on the desktop. Sun could have spent - one billion dollars - on the Java 1.6u10 for OS X, but instead they bought MySQL. Why ? Because Sun wants to sell more servers. Apple wants to sell laptops, portable music players and cellphones.

Dear Apple: Some Java Love, Please?.

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I thought I was creating a hit record. But then it turned out that talent, style and hitting the right keys is not what it takes. You just need more cowbell. More cowbell will solve all your problems and make you a superstar.

Cowbell on your phone. Cowbell on your TV. Cowbell on your computer. Cowbell everywhere. This is the way to make money. The cowbell effect will transform even the most inept performer into a musical superstar.

Petty things like instruments, backing vocals, technical crew and public relations are for old people. Today all you need is cowbell.

Cowbell.

Because.

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I know this comment is going to sound very infantile, but where did all the JavaFX people go ? Hello ! There is this gigantic financial meltdown all around us and JavaFX is going nowhere. There is no useful information anywhere. Maybe they're all on vacation ? Kicking back in Hawaii while the entire world is thinking something like this:

Hmm... Budget for 2009. AJAX and Web 2.0. Well, TechCrunch said that the Web 2.0 thing is over. No budget allocation. AIR and Flex. Well.. We already bought CS3, so what the hell. Cheap upgrade. The iPhone. Nobody here knows Objective C. What the heck, we let the dedicated nerd boy handle it.

JavaFX... What is JavaFX anyway ? I have no JavaFX installed. No budget allocation.

Teppefall Media Player going nowhere. I don't sell servers for a living and can't risk it. Sun is projecting extreme uncertainty in a rough market.

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