Re:The Android Opportunity
by cpr on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @11:43AM
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Why do you say "mind explosive mix"--it's just Objective-C++ (yes, which includes C and C++ by definition--not a mix), which I find mind-explodingly good for what it is. (Being a grizzled old hacker with Smalltalk & Lisp roots way back.)
The Cocoa Touch libraries are excellent, as far as they go, drawing on a couple of decades of experience with Smalltalk-style UI code (NeXT and Cocoa); and, you're free to innovate on your own UI as far as you want to take it. Nothing in the way.
The OpenGL implementation (hardware itself & the software interface) is excellent, and just got much better with the 3GS.
Seems like they're moving from strength to strength, and I'm pretty cynical about these things.
The Cocoa Touch libraries are excellent, as far as they go, drawing on a couple of decades of experience with Smalltalk-style UI code (NeXT and Cocoa); and, you're free to innovate on your own UI as far as you want to take it. Nothing in the way.
The OpenGL implementation (hardware itself & the software interface) is excellent, and just got much better with the 3GS.
Seems like they're moving from strength to strength, and I'm pretty cynical about these things.