#Apple java developer jobs for mac os#
#Apple java developer jobs mac os x#

The fact is that Jobs had been trying for years to get Sun, then Oracle, to take over Java releases for OS X. Until this last week, Sun had released Java versions only for Linux and Windows. A bitter, extended, and very public court battle ended in January 2001, with Microsoft paying Sun $20 million for its transgressions and Sun taking control of Java updates. Microsoft started taking its version of Java far afield, adding its own extensions to the language, and Sun sued in 1997 to get its trademark back. Jobs knew full well that Apple was developing its own version of Java, just like all the other platform providers.

#Apple java developer jobs for mac os#

Java 1.0 for Mac OS 9 was released in 1996, the year Apple bought NeXT and Jobs returned to the Apple fold. 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. Of course, Jobs knew at the time he was blowing smoke - or perhaps a reality distortion field set in. They have their own release schedules, which are almost always different than ours, so the Java we ship is always a version behind. 21, 2010, the MacRumors forum said that Jobs replied to a concerned Java developer, claiming, 'Sun (now Oracle) supplies Java for all other platforms. Apple had never supported Java clients in its iOS.

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 java developer jobs mac os x#

20, says, 'The Java runtime ported by Apple and that ships with Mac OS X is deprecated. The Mac OS X Developer Library post for Oct. Steve Jobs dropped Java for the Mac in October 2010, removing it as part of the standard OS X install.