Oracle, the company responsible for the development and distribution of Java, has issued an important notice to Apple. According to their findings, with MacOS Sonoma 14.4 version, when running on a computer with Apple Silicon chip, Java experiences a shutdown due to compatibility issues between this tool and the Apple operating system under that specific chip.
Java Issues on Apple
As Oracle has publicly reported on their website, Sonoma, the current version of MacOS running on Apple desktop and laptop computers, has encountered a significant compatibility issue between the Java service, this version of MacOS, and the Apple Silicon processor, which seems to have problems due to this recent update released by the bitten apple company.
This is a problem that does not occur on Intel devices, so this inconvenience only affects Mac or MacBook devices that have upgraded to MacOS 14.4 and at the same time have Apple Silicon inside. Oracle, with this report, seeks for the company to solve this issue as soon as possible to have the fewest possible number of affected users.
The Apple ecosystem and its double-edged sword
It is not new that Apple’s software has compatibility issues with other third-party services, often even essential ones. This case is with Java in the MacOS ecosystem, but iOS has also suffered a lot from this problem in recent decades, with incidents even when sending text messages to Android phones, due to different protocols.
That is why Apple has always had the bad reputation of being a very closed ecosystem compared to many others, even though its internal services also have a performance and user experience far superior to the average. Thus, therefore, its hallmark is generated with a very visible double-edged sword: superior performance in almost all aspects, but with less availability and freedom for external services to Apple.
