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consumers are hardly the market where Java is the most important. And even for consumers Mac is NOT an important platform. Outside some niche markets they have hardly any marketshare at all, and in those niches there's hardly any Java software. The 3 platforms Sun covers (Windows, Linux, and Solaris) cover probably around 90%+ of the end user market and 60-75% of the low/mid range server market. It would make far more sense for Sun to create AIX and OS/400 (or whatever IBM calls it these days) machines than it does for them to spend the same resources on creating MacOS VMs, as that would give them a far larger marketshare of the mid/high end server market for VMs which is more lucrative than the small niche where Apple operates. And serverside applications are FAR more important for Java than desktop stuff, no matter what the Netbeans team might think (and the Apple lovers who've never even heard of servers). |
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