Relax, its marketing.  
 
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. 
 
Also, in their defense, squeak is not a production platform.  
 
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.
 
Oh yeah, Java SUCKS.  
I am trying to see if I like bistro though...

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephan B. Wessels [mailto:swessels at one.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 6:40 AM
To: Squeak mailing list
Subject: Apple hyping java...


Help me I'm going to puke...

>From the article at
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=4425

"Apple views Java as being the technology that enables people to develop
and deploy applications across multiple platforms.

"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.

"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"




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