Mac OS X —
There’s an Internet blogger campaign that’s just started to try to get Apple to give out some information about Java 6 on Leopard. It’s called “Vote For Java 6 On Leopard“. To take part, people are being asked to include the string:
13949712720901ForOSX
in a blog. I’ve no idea how many “Java Mac [...]
My last couple of blog entries have been about Apple. Some of the comments people have left got me thinking - has Mac OS X lost most of its value to developers?
For the last few years, Mac OS X has had a unique selling point (USP) that made it really attractive to developers. That is, [...]
Well, the new version of Mac OS X, Leopard, has shipped… without support for the latest version of Java - Java 6. Also, the developer preview build of Java 6 that has, up until very recently, been available on the Apple Developer web-site has been pulled. From the sounds around the [...]
Here’s some developer perspective I’ve been given from someone using the latest build of Leopard - the next version of Mac OS X:
3-D Dock - Who cares?
Coverflow - A bit confusing
Quick Look - Close to magic, very impressed with this feature
Overall performance - lots of things speeded up. Spaces, Spotlight and Stacks all very quick
Java [...]
Steve Jobs has, this minute, finished his keynote address at the 2007 Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC). Here are my initial reactions…
Top Secret New Features… What Top Secret New Features?
Well… Leopard looks… just OK. Not much, if any,”wow factor”. About as interesting as Vista. If there were any exciting [...]
Virtualization is a huge opportunity for Apple. So, the question is: why hasn’t Apple acquired Parallels, which is the virtualization software for Mac OS X? I’m struggling to think of a good reason…
If Leopard had killer virtualization built in, it would be huge news…but, somehow, I don’t think will. [...]
For as long as I can remember, the state of the Java platform on Mac OS has been rather frustrating for developers (we started building desktop applications in Java on the Mac back in 1997/98). In some ways, Apple has always done a good job with Java, in that the applications ran pretty [...]
Yesterday, I was at a conference, and got talking to someone who works at a medium sized company that is currently based around Macs on the corporate desktop. They’re a large enough company that they do a lot of custom software development for the Mac for internal use in the company; and large [...]