While agreeing with your sentiments, a bit of bitter reality has to be
acknowledged in Apple's defense: despite any familial, and even legal,
relationships, it is not Apple's responsibility to promote Squeak (it's
really ours).  Apple's responsibility is to sell Apples, and bringing
attention to the fact that a potential customer's investment in Java
will retain its value if a switch is made to the Apple platform, and
that's just good business.  I don't fault Apple for plugging Java; I
just wish they weren't so blamed SMUG about it.

However, I'm convinced that, were we to drive customers Apple's way
begging for Squeak, they'd cheerfully pronounce they not only support
it, they INVENTED it!  (-:

Gary




"Stephan B. Wessels" <swessels at one.net> wrote:
> I really like the products that Apple produces.  So I tend not to be openly
> critical of them.
> 
> But the statement that really offended me was 3... Java is the leader in
> this space right now - in fact, it1s probably the only player in the space
> for providing a cross-platform technology....2
> 
> For goodness sakes.  Didn't the Squeak Central work for Apple when Squeak
> was created?
> 
> There's just days when the Java hype just rubs me wrong.  Don't even get me
> started about Jme2EE.
> 
>  - Steve
> 
> 
> On 3/29/02 3:26 PM, "Gary Fisher" <gafisher at sprynet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Glue is fine for binding some things, though cheese also has its adherents.
> > Personally, I'd prefer to be UNbound, but maybe I just tend to think
> > different.
> > 
> > Gary
> >