Maybe eight months of experience isn't enough to judge it fairly, but I think Cocoa's almost mystical reputation is somewhat inflated. If you compare Cocoa Touc

Maybe eight months of experience isn't enough to judge it fairly, but I think Cocoa's almost mystical reputation is somewhat inflated. If you compare Cocoa Touch to Cocoa on the Mac you can see that Cocoa Touch is a much cleaner, simpler and more consistent version of Cocoa. There is still room for improvement. It's a testament to the skills of the original authors of Objective-C that a 1989 technology is still competitive in 2011, but we've learned a lot about language and UI framework design since then.