... and deprecating it on the Mac will remove one argument for allowing Java on the i-devices. Apple earns money via their app store and don't want a JVM there to compete with. Ergo skip java completely. For my company it means that our java based customer programs that now support Linux / Windows / Mac OS X in the future will support only Linux and Apple. We're certainly not going to reprogram them from start just to support Apple. What it means for our apple based customers is hard to say.

Moonbase Alpha of course!