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Gosling Reacts To Apple's Java Deprecation
Kurofuneparry writes "Apple has announced that Java is deprecated as of the most recent update to OS X. This shot across the bow is getting some responses. To Jobs' claim that 'Sun (now Oracle) supplies Java for all other platforms,' James Gosling is quoted as saying that 'simply isn't true.' Much talk of a coming turf war is to be had. This certainly can't be unrelated to statements from Jobs recently covered on this website and is sure to make waves. Apple has enjoyed significant success recently accompanied by a widespread sense that they can do no wrong in business or design. However, is deprecating Java a mistake? It doesn't take much insight to connect the dots and see that Apple has starting marking friends and enemies relative to the increasingly heated fight for mobile and other platforms."
Why is nobody calling this douchebag out on his blatant apple fanboy hype?
>The music and movies that sell to iOS users are made on Macs.
>They are the leading provider of music and audio editing tools by volume. All of this stuff runs only on the Mac.
Define your usage of "made" as "recorded onto" and add the words "pop musician" and perhaps that statement might hold a BIT of truth. No musician I know personally uses a mac at all, the majority of them use either a PC or actual audio gear. As for only running on a mac, what other than garage band and logic? How about Ableton, Cubase, Nuendo, Fruityloops, Reason, Sound Forge, Cooledit, and Protools to name a few that run on the PC just fine.
>It has a pro video subsystem, a pro audio subsystem, a pro graphics subsystem, a pro Web development subsystem, it can be maintained without I-T support. None of those things are true of any other computer.
What exactly makes a Mac? PC hardware. Why is it "Pro" Quadro when it's in a Mac and not a PC? Seems to me that an Emu or other "Pro" sound board works as well in a PC as a Mac.
>They sell 90% of the high-end Intel PC's sold every year. They sell 20% of the Intel PC's sold at US retail every year, in spite of having no low end model.
Source? Ok even taking this rediculous statement at face value, do you not see the irony? Intel sells their high end for so much because they know there is a segment out there that will pay 5x the price for another 10% performance gain, I'm surprised it's not quite a bit more frankly, as 50% of us humans are below average intelligence by definition. As for Apple not selling low end Macs, they too realize only a tiny subset is going to buy their products, they have 30+ years of actual history to show them that, they're simply trying to milk the suckers for as much as they can.
I could easily go on for hours with your little gem of a marketing blurb, but I think you're probably just a troll, so I'm done now.