Objective-C and Cocoa : enticing

...Smalltalk VM running on the iPhone in 93 days... sweet effort!... wonder what others will follow for other languages...
http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/11/squeak-on-the-iphone/

It turns out, the more I look into it... Objective-C seems really cool, and enticing. ObjC is a series of SmallTalk style object extensions to the C language. It's dynamically typed like SmallTalk (and Ruby). There is lots of message passing (also like Ruby). Even though ObjC is dynamically typed, and has message passing and all that other great goodness... it's compiled. It's a dynamically typed language, but variables are only typed by choice. Also, many of tedious aspects of Objective-C — memory management and accessor maintenance, for example — go away in Leopard if you want them to.

RubyCocoa is also available, which is bridge between Ruby and Objective-C, and vice versa. You can write full on Cocoa apps in Ruby. ...however, Mac development (same goes for iPhone) seems to revolve around Cocoa.. and Cocoa revolves around ObjC. The two are designed to work together.

Nothing will compare to the Ruby syntax, but ObjC is becoming more attractive to me. Espeically with iPhone app ideas for the iPhone bouncing around in my head daily.

Phenomenal Execution by Apple with iPhone

Apple executes when it comes to designing, engineering, and marketing their products. Better than anyone in the hardware world.


http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=18539

"The Most Successful Product Intro of the 21st Century"

"Apple's iPhone could emerge as the most successful product introduction of the 21st century, new research suggests." Conducted by Lightspeed Research, "the research findings are staggering," reports Jonny Evans (Macworld). "Nearly 90 percent" of the respondents had heard about iPhone, and 32% of those who didn't already own one intend to purchase one. In a separate survey, Lightspeed Research also learned that "nearly half of those who would like to own an iPhone stated that the benefits of having music, movie, internet and wireless all in one was the top reason."