Java and Ipad
I am trying to use a website with my Ipad. The website needs Java. There is a a button on the website that says it will download Java, but when I try it says can't do so because my mahchine needs windows. Does this make sense?
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@Harry
One big thing about Apple that you're missing, and that has always been the case long before the iPad etc. is that they don't really care about gaining "large segments" of software, or market share, or whatever. They simply aim to produce what they consider to be the "best" products, and if consumers agree, then they will buy them, (and obviously, they do and are) and software and market share will come along naturally. Apple, technically, could include every feature available on rivals products, but they choose not to. Apple deliberately leaves out certain features for long after others have included them, until they feel they can do it better, or will never include it if they feel there is a better alternative, or it simply doesn't work well enough for them.
Java (and Flash) are those types of technologies where you never get to do the "best" possible on every device it runs on. Every platform-agnostic technology naturally becomes limited by the lowest common denominator. If Apple allowed Java on iOS, you'd never get half of the "best in class" software products that Apple device users enjoy, because (lazy) developers who only want to write once, deploy everywhere, would write their apps so they run on the lowest spec hardware not taking advantage of any of the exclusive or specific capabilities of the Apple hardware or OS. It already happens on Android, where fragmentation is a real problem. How is that good for Apple's aim to be the "best"? Apple wants coders to be writing apps using native APIs that take advantage of the latest hardware instantly - not months or years later when Java eventually (if ever) gets updated to include support for these new features.
Until Apple came along, the concept of taking "decisions that will enable them to preserve the user experience" was uheard of.
Until Apple came along, computers were difficult to use for non tech-heads. Until Apple released the first iMac, computer designs were boring - how quick were rivals to try to copy them? Until Apple released the iPhone, phone designs and phone UIs had stagnated. Now look at them. Until Apple released the iPad, tablet computers were big bulky, clunky, things, trying to run desktop OSs with a stylus, that nobody wanted.
Of course, Apple didn't invent any of these things, nor were they first on the market with any of them. But they did refine and enhance things by controlling the whole user experience from hardware to software to the point where people wanted to buy them, and competitors needed to copy them. You don't get to do that using platform-agnostic solutions - I don't see how you can say pushing stagnating product categories ahead doesn't benefit the users in any way.
