Sun to developers: "With Java you can write once and run anywhere!"
Sun to OS vendors: "Hey, we just promised developers they can run Java on your platforms. Now you go make it happen!"
Apple to Sun: "... you!"
Sun to OS vendors: "Hey, we just promised developers they can run Java on your platforms. Now you go make it happen!"
Apple to Sun: "... you!"
Sun to NeXT: yeah, let's do this!
Sun to developers: "With Java you can write once and run anywhere!"
Sun to Lighthouse Design: Come to daddy!
Sun to NeXT: buh-BYE!
Sun to OS vendors: "Hey, we just promised developers they can run Java on your platforms. Now you go make it happen!"
Apple to NeXT: come to daddy!
NeXT to Apple: Avast ye swabbies - prepare to be boarded, arrrr!
(...time passes...)
Oracle to Sun: Come to daddy!
Apple to Snoracle: "... you!"
I'm not naive enough to see this as a moral issue. It's a quite rational and understandable business decision on Apple's part. I just doubt that treating your partners or even ex-partners like that is beneficial in the long run.
Can anybody give any examples of businesses centered on selling apps written in Java for OSX please?
http://twitter.com/crashplan/status/28403694811
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"Online Backup," "Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003/08, Mac OS 10.4+, Linux Kernel 2.6, Solaris 10, OpenSolaris"
An online backup app, free for personal use, made for all common platforms is a "businesses centered on selling apps written in Java for OSX"?
Apple backups their own data to other's company cloud? I don't think Jobs would approve that.
Check it out. It's the only offsite backup utility I know of which not only covers all the bandwidth conservation bases (compression, data de-duplication, block-level updates), but also allows you to do an initial backup to local storage, ship or transport the disk, and then continue to back up to it over the internet.
And before some intrepid nerd starts waxing rhapsodic about rsync and tin cans joined with string, CrashPlan also offers a respectable UI, sensible default backup selection, end-to-end encryption, firewall traversal, email notifications, total OS agnosticism, and a free version with all of the above.
Hell of a product. I have no relationship to the company except that of a satisfied customer.
Mike - Code 42 Software
Steve McLeod knew that he'd never be able to compete with Pokertracker on Windows (it doesn't run on OS X), so he decided to focus 100% on the OS X side of it and add features as he was able, and I think that was an excellent decision. The product is quite good there and doesn't feel like an afterthought like many OS X products. It's a small market, but he's pretty much the only player in town, so...