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<DIV><SPAN class=342240222-29032002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Relax,
its marketing. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>Internally, Apple does everything in ObjectiveC. They view it as a
sort of secret weapon though. The Java stuff is to get the J-Heads over to
the Mac. Once there, I believe it is hoped they will look around at the
Cocoa stuff and maybe give it a whirl. If they do, they'll be
hooked. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=342240222-29032002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Also,
in their defense, squeak is not a production platform.
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<DIV><SPAN class=342240222-29032002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Specifically, the UI kit is raw (not that swing is all that good) and
quirky. Squeak has a great deal of potential that I feel remains untapped,
primarily because its been a reasearch platform. People try things, they
learn things, maybe they clean some of it up, but mostly they move on and try
new things.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=342240222-29032002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Oh
yeah, Java SUCKS. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=342240222-29032002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I am
trying to see if I like bistro though...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Stephan B. Wessels
[mailto:swessels@one.net]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 27, 2002 6:40
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Squeak mailing list<BR><B>Subject:</B> Apple hyping
java...<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial>Help me I’m going to
puke...<BR><BR>From the article at
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=4425<BR><BR></FONT><FONT
size=4><FONT face=Geneva>“Apple views Java as being the technology that
enables people to develop and deploy applications across multiple
platforms.<BR><BR>“We chose Java because we believe that no matter how big a
company or what kind of organization you are, you’re going to have a
heterogeneous network with many different platforms sitting on it on many
devices.<BR><BR>“Java is the leader in this space right now – in fact, it’s
probably the only player in the space for providing a cross-platform
technology. And that’s why Apple chose to support Java in OS X – because Apple
believes that Java is the glue binding all these systems
together”<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>