Java On iPhone...

So I read the news that Sun was going to put Java on the iPhone and thought, great!

What I'd really rather see though is Sun put the engineering resources behind putting Java 6 on the Mac and take that responsibility off Apple's plate. Apple is slow to get Java out the door and honestly as a long time Java guy on the Mac I don't really care that Swing looks 'like a mac' on the Mac. Sun could just port the 'native' Swing look and feel (on top of Carbon or Cocoa which ever is easier) and call it a day. Very few Java apps are visual anyway, in my experience it is primarily used to build web sites not fat clients.

I know most Cocoa/Mac programmers don't really care about Java anyway but over the years Mac's have become ubiquitous at Java conferences and I'd hate to see Mac loose the geek chic that its won in the hearts and minds of the Java crowd because there is no Java 6. So anyway here is my small voice saying get the JDK on the Mac and then we can worry about Java on the iPhone.