<story><title>Email from Steve Jobs re: Java and OS X</title><url>http://flic.kr/p/8M3fPG</url><text>I just got a response from Steve Jobs re: Java and OS X. Here it is.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>andreyf</author><text>I&apos;ve used Macs for years, and I haven&apos;t seen a Java app I didn&apos;t hate. They&apos;re UI is never native and the UX is much slower than good webapp&apos;s?</text></item><item><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>Considering Java apps are banned from the Mac App Store, and there is currently no Oracle JDK for the Mac, I find it hard to call his comment decent. In the interest of not being inflamatory I refrain from calling it something else.</text></item><item><author>cubicle67</author><text>That&apos;s actually a fairly decent reply; far better than &apos;nope&apos; or &apos;you&apos;re holding it wrong&apos;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ubernostrum</author><text>I use exactly one Java application on OS X. And that&apos;s Minecraft.</text></comment>
<story><title>Email from Steve Jobs re: Java and OS X</title><url>http://flic.kr/p/8M3fPG</url><text>I just got a response from Steve Jobs re: Java and OS X. Here it is.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>andreyf</author><text>I&apos;ve used Macs for years, and I haven&apos;t seen a Java app I didn&apos;t hate. They&apos;re UI is never native and the UX is much slower than good webapp&apos;s?</text></item><item><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>Considering Java apps are banned from the Mac App Store, and there is currently no Oracle JDK for the Mac, I find it hard to call his comment decent. In the interest of not being inflamatory I refrain from calling it something else.</text></item><item><author>cubicle67</author><text>That&apos;s actually a fairly decent reply; far better than &apos;nope&apos; or &apos;you&apos;re holding it wrong&apos;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robin_reala</author><text>Cyberduck generally gets hauled up at this point as an example of a good Java OSX application: &lt;a href=&quot;http://cyberduck.ch/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://cyberduck.ch/&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>