Mon, 7 May 2012

6:38 AM - Tim Cook gradually change the Apple

 Tim Cook do something better than Steve Jobs,not too much but really some.

Let's see it: Java.

Oracle, the inherited owner of Java, has generously stepped in to help protect Mac owners from infections like Flashback. There's an important backstory, though, that hasn't hit the headlines.Although Steve Jobs tried for years to get out from under the Java ball and chain, last week Tim Cook finally coerced Oracle into supplying updates for its own software. ( recovery mac password)It only took 700,000 infected systems to convince Oracle to handle Java on OS X itself.Steve Jobs dropped Java for the Mac in October 2010, removing it as part of the standard OS X install. The Mac OS X Developer Library post for Oct. 20, says, "The Java runtime ported by Apple and that ships with Mac OS X is deprecated. Developers should not rely on the Apple-supplied Java runtime being present in future versions of Mac OS X." At the same time, Apple stopped accepting apps for the Mac App Store that relied on the Java Runtime Environment. Apple had never supported Java clients in its iOS.Of course, Jobs knew at the time he was blowing smoke -- or perhaps a reality distortion field set in. ( Transfer Files from iPod to iTunes on Mac)With a few notable exceptions, Java's owner has never supplied versions "for all other platforms." Back when Java started, Sun supplied a version of the runtime for Linux because, as the "father of Java" James Gosling says, "there was no one else to do it." Every other distributor -- Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Apple -- rolled its own version, based on Sun's reference code.

We can't say that Jobs was wrong, just not so right, Tim's way better.

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