Comments on: Some New Consumer Java Technologies To Watch… http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/12/12/some-new-consumer-java-technologies-to-watch/ Simon Brocklehurst's Technology Blog Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:27:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: simon http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/12/12/some-new-consumer-java-technologies-to-watch/#comment-176325 simon Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:12:23 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/12/12/some-new-consumer-java-technologies-to-watch/#comment-176325 LOL Asam... actually, as you well know, Apple's general policy is to not share forward-looking technology roadmaps with developers, or anyone else - not even its most important customers. To be fair, it's hard to argue that this policy is hurting Apple when you look at its market cap, its revenues and its substantial growth rate. The company is spectacularly successful. However, there's also no denying that Apple's developer community is small. This hasn't mattered because, on the whole, Apple's growth has not been fueled by developers. That may not be true for the next phase of the company's growth. If Apple wants to increase the size of its developer community, which I think it does, it may have open up a little. Time will tell... LOL Asam… actually, as you well know, Apple’s general policy is to not share forward-looking technology roadmaps with developers, or anyone else - not even its most important customers.

To be fair, it’s hard to argue that this policy is hurting Apple when you look at its market cap, its revenues and its substantial growth rate. The company is spectacularly successful.

However, there’s also no denying that Apple’s developer community is small. This hasn’t mattered because, on the whole, Apple’s growth has not been fueled by developers. That may not be true for the next phase of the company’s growth. If Apple wants to increase the size of its developer community, which I think it does, it may have open up a little. Time will tell…

]]> By: Asam Bashir http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/12/12/some-new-consumer-java-technologies-to-watch/#comment-176099 Asam Bashir Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:42:32 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/12/12/some-new-consumer-java-technologies-to-watch/#comment-176099 Hey Dan, Apple doesn't have a public plan for anything - Java 6 progress for Mac OS X is very healthy and will be made available once it's ready - research at your favourite Swedish torrent site if you like. But that version is several months old now, and Apple doesn't sit around. Both hardware and software teams are working at full pace towards MacWorld Expo Jan 2008.. Apple does communicate with it's community of developers, Java developers don't count, they just make a lot of noise but have yet to produce any killer apps with Apple standards of human user interface. Hey Dan, Apple doesn’t have a public plan for anything - Java 6 progress for Mac OS X is very healthy and will be made available once it’s ready - research at your favourite Swedish torrent site if you like. But that version is several months old now, and Apple doesn’t sit around. Both hardware and software teams are working at full pace towards MacWorld Expo Jan 2008..

Apple does communicate with it’s community of developers, Java developers don’t count, they just make a lot of noise but have yet to produce any killer apps with Apple standards of human user interface.

]]> By: simon http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/12/12/some-new-consumer-java-technologies-to-watch/#comment-175616 simon Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:32:34 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/12/12/some-new-consumer-java-technologies-to-watch/#comment-175616 Dan, You don't have to convince me - I agree! It's frustrating that Apple's policy is not to communicate with developers. I wasn't talking about about Java 5 though. I was talking about Apple's Java 6, which is still buggy and was pulled prior to the Leopard release. But, just because it was pulled from the developer web-site doesn't mean it hasn't already had a lot of work sunk into it. Dan,

You don’t have to convince me - I agree! It’s frustrating that Apple’s policy is not to communicate with developers.

I wasn’t talking about about Java 5 though. I was talking about Apple’s Java 6, which is still buggy and was pulled prior to the Leopard release. But, just because it was pulled from the developer web-site doesn’t mean it hasn’t already had a lot of work sunk into it.

]]> By: deans4j http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/12/12/some-new-consumer-java-technologies-to-watch/#comment-175611 deans4j Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:13:09 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/12/12/some-new-consumer-java-technologies-to-watch/#comment-175611 these things you mention are all in the JavaFX Family! Actually JavaFX is not just about new technologies, but it's about improving the end-user experiences. : ) these things you mention are all in the JavaFX Family!

Actually JavaFX is not just about new technologies, but it’s about improving the end-user experiences.

: )

]]> By: Dan http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/12/12/some-new-consumer-java-technologies-to-watch/#comment-175568 Dan Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:08:24 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/12/12/some-new-consumer-java-technologies-to-watch/#comment-175568 "They have a long way to go before they get to where Apple is at with their Java implementation;" - you mean, going backwards to Java 5? Apple doesn't even have a Java 6 implementation, or a public plan for getting there. “They have a long way to go before they get to where Apple is at with their Java implementation;” - you mean, going backwards to Java 5? Apple doesn’t even have a Java 6 implementation, or a public plan for getting there.

]]> By: simon http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/12/12/some-new-consumer-java-technologies-to-watch/#comment-174673 simon Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:29:05 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/12/12/some-new-consumer-java-technologies-to-watch/#comment-174673 Yep. They're doing a great job; and it shows the benefits of Open Sourcing Java. They have a long way to go before they get to where Apple is at with their Java implementation; but they've really only just started. Lot's of hard work still to do; hopefully the project will keep the momentum going. I think it would be a smart move for Apple to Open Source their Java implementation... not sure it will happen though... Yep. They’re doing a great job; and it shows the benefits of Open Sourcing Java. They have a long way to go before they get to where Apple is at with their Java implementation; but they’ve really only just started. Lot’s of hard work still to do; hopefully the project will keep the momentum going.

I think it would be a smart move for Apple to Open Source their Java implementation… not sure it will happen though…

]]> By: Asam Bashir http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/12/12/some-new-consumer-java-technologies-to-watch/#comment-174580 Asam Bashir Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:46:58 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2007/12/12/some-new-consumer-java-technologies-to-watch/#comment-174580 Hey did you see these, http://headius.blogspot.com/2007/11/java-6-port-for-os-x-tiger-and-leopard.html http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/ Hey did you see these,

http://headius.blogspot.com/2007/11/java-6-port-for-os-x-tiger-and-leopard.html

http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/

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