Re: Apple, Microsoft, Java and the Web?

For a number of reasons as I see it.

1)	Apple is a hardware and platform company.

For Desktop applications, they want to make Mac's a compelling user  
experience and hence they put a lot of effort into the OS, Carbon and  
Cocoa.  And they put a lot of effort into making Java on the Desktop  
work very well on the Mac with none of the version hell that affects  
Windows Java installations.

For Web Applications, they put a lot of effort into providing the best  
platform to support a broad range of technologies.  Tiger supports a  
long list of environments and Leopard takes this even further by  
including RoR and (as you will have read elsewhere on the web) the  
ability to call into their high-value Cocoa frameworks from virtually  
anything.

WebObjects is a very important technology for Apple in running many of  
its own systems but Apple recognizes that, on the Web, supporting  
everything is better for it in the long term.

2)	Microsoft is a software / OS company.

Microsoft wants you to use its OS and software.  It doesn't want you  
to use technology that you can run on any OS otherwise how will it  
make money?

Microsoft is all about locking you into its platform and tools.

So they have totally different goals and objectives to me.

Karl



On Aug 12, 2006, at 8:11 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:

>
> Howdy All,
>
> Why is it (if it is the case) that Microsoft sees Java as a threat  
> but Apple doesn't?
>
> Considering they both make desktop software platforms ... (Java  
> sucks is not a good answer ;-)
>
> Why is it that Microsoft sees value in its Web platform (ASP.Net)  
> and Apple doesn't (WO)?
>
> Apple seems (just guessing) to be offloading their Web platform to  
> Java/Ruby ...
>
> Microsoft puts a lot of effort into their Web development platform.
>
> Just interested in your thoughts.
>
> Cheers,
> Ashley.
>
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