I have just figured out why Apple seem to have cornered the market for java development hardware.
It has nothing to do with speed, ease of use, or glitzyness.
It has everything to do with annotations. People are starting to use annotations for loads of stuff now. The most extreme example is probably qi4j, where the annotations are running the show with bits of java showing through.
Around here, Spring have cornered the market for application infrastructure. Spring has also started to do annotations that are very useful.
This is where Apple comes in. They have put the “@” symbol on a separate key. That has to be good since it feels like java code now is consisting of close to 50% ampersands.
I really, really wish Sun had taken a different approach with annotations. My code is starting to look like perl, with the symbols you get by pressing shift and the upper row on a PC keyboard eating more and more attention.
At least I don’t have to press shift to get the @ symbol. It almost seems like Sun are also using Macs.
