Actually the outrage is that Apple did this with no warning. Just the press of a key and hundreds of thousands of web sites that rely on Java were disabled. Nice work, Apple!
If they had at least given people a notice that it was going to happen on day XX/XX/XX, at XX:XX pm, it would have allowed people to prepare for it. -- Rogers (Ericcson) Rocket Hub, Apple Intel iMac, OSX 10.6