Comment Re:Good way to turn a positive thing negative (Score 1) 800
Apple is deciding to push developers to use their Obj-C language to develop for their very hot mobile platform. Will this *slam* the door on innovation? How does a language choice stop me from innovating? It may limit a java developer who does NOT want to learn Obj-C.
And that is really the point here. Apple has an opportunity to entice *new* developers to learn Objective C. So they win twice. They get developers writing code for the iPhone platform, potentially buying macs to do development. (You need to have a mac to work on iPhone apps). And then once a developer knows Obj-C on the iPhone, is it a big stretch to see some of those new developers writing code the Mac itself?
With that in mind, why would Apple want to allow a different language on their phone?
And for the talk of all the different smart phones out there, be they windows based or running J2ME... They are not hot. The iPhone has an allure factor to it that I have not seen before in the mobile market.
Just my 0.02
And that is really the point here. Apple has an opportunity to entice *new* developers to learn Objective C. So they win twice. They get developers writing code for the iPhone platform, potentially buying macs to do development. (You need to have a mac to work on iPhone apps). And then once a developer knows Obj-C on the iPhone, is it a big stretch to see some of those new developers writing code the Mac itself?
With that in mind, why would Apple want to allow a different language on their phone?
And for the talk of all the different smart phones out there, be they windows based or running J2ME... They are not hot. The iPhone has an allure factor to it that I have not seen before in the mobile market.
Just my 0.02
