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I think the idea is to write quirky iPhone looking apps for all those people on Windows without an iPhone

• allenbrunson 17y ago
  that's a good point! there's an awful lot of complaining from people who want to get in on the iphone gold rush but don't have a mac and iphone to develop with. this way, you could do most of the work in nui, then borrow somebody else's mac for the final stages, which might take only a day or so.
  • meeloo 17y ago
    The idea also is to write iPhone applications in C++ instead of ObjectiveC/Cocoa which as a steep learning curve (not objC per se but the way cocoa works takes time to learn...)
    • tptacek 17y ago
      NUI is simpler than Cocoa? It doesn't look that way.
      • meeloo 17y ago
        Not sure what your background is but for most people learning ObjectiveC and Cocoa is much longer than just learning a new toolkit. I have no problem programming in ObjectiveC with Cocoa but may people really do.
        • tptacek 17y ago
          I've shipped in Motif, GTK, and Win32, and I know ObjC/Cocoa; of these 4, Cocoa was by far the easiest. Can you point me at some critiques of Cocoa vs., say, QT? Again, I get that it's cross-platform. But that's not a huge win for the iPhone, which is so idiosyncratic that any good app is going to be one big special case for that platform.