http://www.pcworld.com/article/208646/mac_without_flash_a_hopeless_story.html
new twist in the Apple-Adobe squabble. Apple says that it's still cheerfully supporting Flash, and that downloading it from Adobe is the best way to get the safest, most current version.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/21/apple_threatens_to_kill_java_on_the_mac/
Jobs also banned Java apps from the upcoming Mac App Store. "Apps that use deprecated or optionally installed technologies (e.g., Java, Rosetta) will be rejected," the store's developer guidelines say.
So, in one day, Apple deprecated Java and announced that applications using deprecated technologies such as Java won't be allowed in its official Mac Apps Store.
Java suddenly disappeared from all desktops, relatively few people would actually notice.
OpenOffice requires Java for "full functionality," but it will run without it.
The worst you can say is that Jobs may murder an untold number of business desktop apps that require Java.
Apple never promised the world to do no evil, but ... Oh well. It's clearly no angel."