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You can’t go to a tech-related conference without wandering through athicket of Apple portables of all different sizes and shapes: MacBooks,PowerBooks, iBooks, even the old black-and-white Wall Street PowerBooksoccasionally. Just about every computer geek I know uses a Mac, which isamazing for those of us who remember being pariahs. And every time Iturn around, someone new is replacing a PC with a Mac.

But some nasty invective about Java on OS X posed the question: is thehoneymoon over for Apple?

At Javalobby, Michael Urban put the kindling in the fireplace with apost telling Apple to buzz off. The absence of version 6 of Java onLeopard is a mortal wound, Urban says, and Apple doesn’t care aboutdevelopers and is dragging its feet on Java because it’s beingdistracted by other things. He’s giving up Macs to prove the point:

Apple has basically spit in our face. Not only did Leopard notship with Java 6, but Apple, in typical fashion, apparently thinksit has no obligation to its customers to inform them about why theplans changed, and when (or even if at this point?) Apple will everhave a working copy of Java 6. Apparently, Apple has even been justdeleting threads in their forums where people are complaining thatJava 6 doesn’t exist, rather than actually respond to them and letthem know if there is any kind of time line for Java 6. But wait… Itgets worse…

As most know by now, Apple has yanked the Java 6 developer previews.No sign or trace of them left on the ADC site. Apple gave noindication as to why it yanked them, if and when there would be newones, etc. So effectively, we are currently left with Leopard havingNO fully working version of Java available for it. You can’t getJava 6, and Java 5 is so broken that parts of it are flat outunusable on Leopard. As a Java developer, this is a situation Iobviously cannot live with.

Urban says that he’s going to use his MacBook Pro as a dual-boot machinefor the time being, spending most of his time in Windows. I’m not surewhy anyone would volunteer for that kind of torture, but I guess youhave to prove a point somehow, especially when you’re slinging harshwords about the “unprecedented arrogance of Steve Jobs.”

James Gosling has another idea for someone like Urban: just don’t use aMac at all. He says that he’s been using Solaris on his laptop, aSony VAIO, and he has a whole laundry list of benefits that it provides,like network auto-configuration and some of the cool ZFS features.(Apparently he didn’t read last month’s column, or he wouldknow—Q.E.D.!—that HFS+ is vastly superior.) He notes, in a follow-uppost, that he knows he’s not really Apple’s target demographic and isOK with that.

But before we get too far afield, some ask, is this Java 5 so broken inLeopard? Adrian Sutton doesn’t think so, and isn’t afraid to say it.He even calls it “a significant improvement” over the 10.4implementation. That’s pretty stiff.

Then there’s the timing issue. John Gruber and Eric Burke both did adouble-take at the assertion that Apple had been dragging their feet onJava 6 for Leopard. Burke looked up the history of Java on OS X and puttogether a nice little graphical time line showing the gap between thereleases of Java, OS X, and OS X implementations of Java. His conclusionis that the 11-month gap he anticipates between the release of Leopardand the release of Java 6 is in character for previous OS Xreleases. So far, it’s been a month and I haven’t seen Java 6 forLeopard, but I’m not in the Conspiracy Against Java Developers campeither.

But Gruber went straight for the jugular. He commented, in a link toUrban’s first post, that the only people who would care about theabsence of Java 6 on Leopard were Java developers, and in a very narrowsense that’s true, since I can’t think of a single major OS Xapplication written in Java. This hit a nerve, so he posted afull-length follow-up:

The only way to ship software is to prioritize, and prioritizingmeans dropping things that are less essential in exchange for thingsthat are more essential. Obviously, for Apple, Java 6 is not apriority. And, judging by reports that even Java 5 support is worseon Leopard than it was on Tiger, Java as a whole is not a priorityfor Apple.

But it’s not like Apple is sitting on a top-notchJava-6-for-Mac-OS-X and withholding it out of spite. They simplydecided to allocate engineering resources elsewhere. In the case ofJava, I don’t think it was even a close call. What should they havedone? Delayed Leopard even further? Pulled engineering resourcesfrom something that did ship with Leopard for Java? Java simplyisn’t relevant to the Mac.

Several irritated Java developers suggested that I’d feeldifferently if it were a developer runtime that I personally caredabout—that I’d be irate if, say, Perl or Ruby or Python were droppedor degraded in Leopard. But that’s not a good comparison; Perl,Python, and Ruby pretty much compile out of the box on Mac OS X.Apple doesn’t have to do much at all—at least relative to Java—toinclude them on Mac OS X. Why? Because that’s how these tools aredesigned and engineered—they’re made to “just build” on anyUnix-like OS. It’s not Apple’s responsibility that Java isn’t likethat—it’s Sun’s.

Now Gruber’s schtick is often to find the polemic where I didn’t thinkthere was one, and insisting that Java is basically irrelevant to theMac is surely ignoring plenty of Java-based enterprise software he’snever had the misfortune of using. (I have, on the other hand, and I cansafely say that if you think Java is bad on modern Mac hardware in OS X,imagine using it on a 600MHz Celeron in Windows XP. I was never so gladto have my work computer replaced.)

The compromise position belongs to Ted Leung. He writes that a lot ofdevelopers started to buy Macs, and push to be able to use them at work,based on the influence of Java developers, who had the luxury ofswitching before many tech people could. They’re the ones who are beinghung out to dry, Leung notes. One of the issues is that, although it’strue that Java doesn’t compile without any problems on OS X, the hang-upis when Java has to talk to the Mac parts (like Carbon) rather than theUnix back-end.

But the real meat of Leung’s post is at the very end. He says Java’ssecond-rate status has a lot to do with its licensing. The bigimprovements to Python and Ruby in Leopard, Leung writes, came fromoutside Apple, and that was made possible by open-source licensing. (Theinference is that Apple has better things to care about.) But Java’snot open source, and more to the point, most Java developers don’tseem to care. If Java were an open-source product, he says, it mighthave brought Java 6 to Leopard already.

As Leung says, we’ll have to wait and see. But Gruber’s still right onone thing: if a Java release falls behind in the release-timelineforest and no one but enterprise users are around to hear it (and thoseenterprise users are still going to be using 10.4 or even 10.3 foranother six to nine months), does it make a sound?

Throw Some of That on the Fire

Every so often, a non-Apple product strikes a nerve in this littlecorner of the blogworld. We Mac users may be the Shire, just a sliver ofMiddle-Earth—but J.R.R. Tolkien made Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’ Shire veryimportant for a reason, too.

Late in November, Amazon released its Kindle. It’s an e-book readerusing E Ink technology, which I’ll explain in a moment, and whichdownloads books formatted specially for it (not PDFs, pointedly) usingSprint’s EV-DO data network. The screen is about the size of a paperbacknovel, and the whole device close to an undersized hardcover book.Amazon claims there are about 90,000 books available for purchase intheir library, mostly back-catalogue items that publishing houses aren’tmarketing anymore.

The device is a little like Sony’s Reader, in that the two devices sharesimilar sizes and similar screens, but the Reader uses PDFs with digitalrights management. And, of course, that limits the available number ofbooks for sale to about 20,000. Life is worth living, and the Sonyinterface looks a lot more user-friendly, but I should disclaim that Ihave not used either device. It’s also worth note that the Reader has tobe synchronized with a computer, like an iPod, whereas the Kindle uses acellular data connection to reach the outside world. (The iPod touch andiPhone can use WiFi to connect to the iTunes Store, but not cellulardata.)

What first intrigued me about the Kindle was that it seemed like itcould be what the Sony Reader ought to have been. E Ink, the leading (bywhich I mean only) commercial purveyor of so-called “electronic ink”displays, is the vendor of some astonishingly cool technology (whichI’ve actually written about before). The display uses completelypassive technology, using very small bubbles filled with black and whitetoner chips with opposing electrical charges. Using the same principlesas an LCD, the display driver applies a charge to specific bubbles,making them either white or black, and they stay that way until you flipthem over again. The result is a high-resolution, high-contrast displaythat reads with a resolution approaching that of a consumer-grade laserprinter and requires very little electricity and no backlighting.

But I could write a book about what could’ve been with the Kindle. Maybesomeday, someone will make a device this revolutionary without theKindle’s limitations, or maybe the Kindle 2 will come along someday andfix its flaws.

Many of the choices that Amazon made in the technology behind theproduct are sound. EV-DO is a good choice for data connectivity; E Inkdisplays look astonishingly like paper (well, paper behind glass, butstill); and harnessing the device to Amazon’s good relationships withpublishers is a no-brainer. They’re the perfect vendors for this device.BusinessWeek thinks the Kindle will be the iPod of books.

But what everyone seems to be talking about, other than its clearlyrevolutionary potential (potential), is its dreadful userinterface. I alluded to that earlier, and it’s painful to see a devicethat sounds so crippled by a couple of flaws. The device just doesn’tlook like a book; it looks like my dad’s Tablet PC convertible laptop oran oversized Treo more than anything else. There are buttons everywhere,including a keyboard, and the device is white and does not match thegrayish tint of the E Ink screen. (E Ink screens are about as white aspaper towels, at 40%, about half the 80% of typical copier paper, muchless the extra-extra-extra-extra white of inkjet paper.)

Now, I have not used the device, and I’d like to before I say anythingtoo dramatic. But I’m not hearing anything positive about the usabilityof the Kindle, suffice it to say. Thibaut Sailly, who writes Well…, is aproduct designer who is pretty hard on the Kindle’s form factor andsome of the hardware decisions that Amazon made. He strikes, againand again, the one important question about hardware design: whatpurpose does this serve? The Kindle looks vaguely like a book, but notvery much; some elements are symmetrical and some are not; some of thebuttons are duplicated; and there’s a curious white strip separating thescroll indicator from the face of the book, reminiscent of that oddtriangle of black plastic on the rear passenger windows of the Ford 500.

Craig Hunter, too, notices one particular interface foible that theKindle suffers from. He’s not sure it needs a physical keyboard at all,since its interface doesn’t rely very heavily on a keyboard. If theKindle wants to be the iPod of books, he says, it needs to take a cuefrom the iPhone. He asks us to imagine a Kindle with no hardwarebuttons and a gesture-based interface. (I doubt that’s possible withcurrent E Ink technology, but perhaps someday.) What a device that wouldbe!

I leave it to TidBITS’ Glenn Fleishman to find the other big flaws theKindle suffers from. He enumerates a few: no PDF support; limited Webbrowsing; and an unbelievably high price for a single-purpose device.

Not everyone thinks the Kindle’s flaws are technological. Steven Poolewants his ideal device to be a book, for all intents and purposes,since his list of requirements includes certain stipulations onlyprinted paper can meet. And Cracked.com’s Daniel O’Brien puts thecontrarian view best when he says, “You know what else feels like realpaper and doesn’t require cables or monthly bills? Fucking books.”

If you want to know what I want to see from the Kindle 2, I want thehardware buttons limited to four: next page; previous page; menu;select. I want more than 4 shades of gray, because I know E Ink has 8shades of grey working on the Sony Reader, and because I’m sure they’reworking on even higher-performance displays. I want higher resolution.And I want the device to look and feel like a book, which means itshould be about the size of a trade paperback when closed, and have a30mm physical bezel and a half-inch book “margins” built into thedisplay, and PDF display supporting either embedded fonts or EPSoutlines so the book designer is still in charge. After all, he or sheknows better than a computer what makes a book easy to read, and thebest books are set in typefaces that are both legible and match thebook. And most important of all, as Ars Technica’s Jon Stokes alsonoticed, the device should flip open, like a book, to show twoside-by-side pages at a time, and, when closed, it should have theprofile of a closed book, preferably with a little display on the front,showing the title of the current book, like a cell phone.

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(An aside: Too many reviewers are hung up on the lack of typefacechoices on the Kindle. It doesn’t matter. If I ran a publishing house,pretty much every book would be typeset in either Hoefler & Frere-Jones’Mercury Text, which is about as readable a 9pt serif there ever wereand which will stand up on virtually any kind of printing. What mattersis the placement of text on the page, the right combination of leadingand point size, the consideration of margins and justification andtracking to make the page melt away and the words pop. But computerusers have substituted typeface changes for good type management for solong that even technology reviewers are confused.)

But if Amazon wants to send me a Kindle and see what I think, I’d behappy to offer my thoughts. Do you have one? Comment, or send me ane-mail at wmeltzer@atpm.com, and I’ll make note of it for my nextcolumn.

Fire Starters

Michael S. Kaplan, who apparently works for Microsoft, hasa nice post on usability and Plug-and-Play keyboards. I’venever tried to do this with Windows, since all of my Windowskeyboards have been PS/2 models, but he has some neatscreen-captures of how Windows and OS X deal with the problemof identifying unidentified keyboards. I wouldn’t want totry to do it the Windows way, and that’s not just a personalpreference.
Bryan Bell, he of the gorgeous icon work, noticed thatAperture has a solid menu bar even though the rest ofLeopard does not. I cheated by putting a white stripe on topof my background image, but it’s a good question: I wasn’taware that there was a preference that changed live. Hm.Apple, please share.
On the theme of neat odds and ends in 10.5, Jens Aytonuncovers how Apple makes the iCal icon show the current datein the Dock. Remember that?
TidBITS’ Matt Neuberg has a fantastic round-up of all ofthe new features in Leopard’s Spotlight. The long and shortof it is that it’s much more usable than in 10.4. Withsomething like Spotlight, “more usable” means “more useful.”I find myself using it a whole lot more than in 10.4, myself.
John C. Welch realized, and wrote a Macworld column about,the death of NetInfo in Leopard. Ding dong, the witch isdead, I say. God only knows how many times I found myselffrustrated by NetInfo, in the early days of using OS X, whensimple tasks that I could perform from the command linedidn’t work because I had to make NetInfo changes. But it isno more, he says.
ZDNet’s David Berlind thinks Apple is going to be forcedto license OS X by hacked copies of the OS floating aroundon the Internet, which bypass the software locks oninstalling OS X on non-Macintosh computers. I doubt they everwould, but even if they did, my anecdotal experience is thatmost non-technically inclined Mac users use whatever versionof OS X is on their computers pretty much until they’reforced to upgrade for one reason or another. The percentageof computer users who might use these cracks to use OS X ontheir PC is so microscopic I doubt Apple’s worried about itat all, because the percentage of computer users who wouldbuy OS X to run on their non-Macintosh computer is smallerthan tech bloggers like David Berlind think.

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