Java Flawed on Leopard

Say it isn't so. Apple isn't listening to customers complaints. Of course not, they know everything. Java isn't important is it?

I thought Apple fans would have accepted this by now. Beginning with the Apple-IIs, Jobs and Apple have abandoned their base, expecting the loyal lemmings to simply follow and buy the new systems, abandoning the old no-longer-supported systems. Jobs has always sold it as the latest, greatest, and best. He claims the new is so good no one will try to stay with the old, and the fans have always paid. Apple will continue to ignore backwards-compatibility as long as people keep buying and putting up with Jobs' products.

At Apple, the arrogance goes in before the name goes on.

That last comment brought back fond memories of the Apple ][+, //e, and //c. I'm glad I had time to enjoy these products before they were dropped. My heart goes out to the GS and Lisa users who must of felt like a person driving a new car out of the sales lot.

Just a remark about the IntelliJ IDEA stalling problem you noticed:

I love IntelliJ dearly, but as someone who has been using it quite a number of years, I must admit that it has a tendency to have occasional irritating pauses for garbage collection. This may not be Apple's fault -- I program almost exclusively on Windows and have seen the same behavior.

I did some experimentation with exotic sets of JVM garbage collection options (enabling incremental garbage collection, concurrent garbage collection, etc.) at startup, and managed to make the long pauses go away, but it introduced enough lag in touch typing that it was too painful to use. In the end, I just decided to deal with the occasional pauses. If I had been running a fast enough machine, perhaps this typing lag would not have been noticeable.

Buying Apple is like buying a Gucci bag.

It is all about the looks, it is all about the new model, with the old ones relegated as old fashion and out of style, therefore irrelevant.

So, as such, the buyers are also like the Gucci buyer. Sophisticated, yet naive. Only cares about the looks, and the brand name, with little regards to whether it is really worth the money, or whether there are better or and more economical ways of moving around your makeup.

They deserve each other. The Apple fanboys are now starting to realize that their boutique OS and their boutique machine is now hitting the masses, and as such, they have to live with the repercussions of it. Imagine if Apple was actually an Open OS that could be installed on any PC ... the bugs, the security flaws, the performance hitches. But heck, as long as there are boutique buyers out there that just care for the fancy looks of the machine, and how easy it is to use as long as you don't do anything really complex, well, Apple will rise and succeed.

As I said, they deserve each other.