I think it just means that Apple has no interest in bringing Java 7 to OS X. It certainly took them a long time to release Java 6.
Funny thing is, one of my favorite Mac apps was/is written in Java: Cyberduck FTP client.
Cyberduck is an open source app originally written using the Java/Cocoa bridge, then using some hybrid of Cocoa and Java. But the thing is, the end user has absolutely no idea that it's a Java application. The only reason I know it's written in Java is because I looked at their source code to see how they implemented Quick Look (before it was a public API), and boom, the damn thing's in Java! As a longtime hater of Java desktop apps, I was flabbergasted.
As far as I'm concerned, OS X was the only desktop platform where Java had any sort of chance for user acceptance, but it never caught on with developers. As such, Java has been effectively dead as an option for desktop development since OS X Leopard.
Funny thing is, one of my favorite Mac apps was/is written in Java: Cyberduck FTP client.
Cyberduck is an open source app originally written using the Java/Cocoa bridge, then using some hybrid of Cocoa and Java. But the thing is, the end user has absolutely no idea that it's a Java application. The only reason I know it's written in Java is because I looked at their source code to see how they implemented Quick Look (before it was a public API), and boom, the damn thing's in Java! As a longtime hater of Java desktop apps, I was flabbergasted.
As far as I'm concerned, OS X was the only desktop platform where Java had any sort of chance for user acceptance, but it never caught on with developers. As such, Java has been effectively dead as an option for desktop development since OS X Leopard.