They seem to have stepped it up - the jdk 5 was miserably late. At least 6 was in its developer preview fairly early.
I think one of the issues is that once they go for the platform sdk, they go all the way - they typically say that *this* is *the* jvm that will be used by the system or, well, the heavily suggested one at least. They look like they're waiting for Leopard for its release, but then they have the issue of *what about Tiger* problem again that they had with Panther.
I hope they realize the developer community that is using their platform and don't turn their back on it. I am in the Salt Lake City, Utah area and the statistics seem similar to other areas in the Utah Java Users Group - 1/4 macs just guessing. It would be nice to have some kind of roadmap though, despite their swearing to secrecy. It's fun and all, but roadmaps can be nice occasionally, for say, planning things. |
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