As a Java developer myself, I find your comments completely mystifying. I don't know what vintage OSX you're running but I've been using Apple's Java 5 for well over a year. It's just a download from Apple. I know it' not Java 6 but that hasn't been out that long.
I note that while you're complaining about Java 1.4 and loads of other issues, Apple released Leopard a few days ago which includes loads of very interesting dev tools including Rails!
Finally, Safari 3 fixes a huge number of the bugs in Safari 2... I've been running it for many months (it's been a free preview and all the rendering code is free and available in nightlies). The version that ships with Leopard is a major improvement.
It's just so weird that you would comment on a 2.5 year old operating system only a few days after it's received a major update!
I am running 10.3.9 as the OS. I have an ITX box running an archaic version of Linux; I think Fedora Core 1. I can easily update it to the current version of Java just by downloading the current i386 build. The 1.6 version of Java on OSX is 10.4 or higher.
Every one of your solutions involves me installing a new operating system or buying a new laptop. My system is quite stable as it is and I don't want to install a new operating system on top of it.
I don't begrudge Apple their support mechanism, but their lack of support of technologies on older operating systems will impact my future purchasing decisions, possibly negatively.
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