Why I Won't Ever Have or Support iPhone

Posted August 14, 2009

As anyone with eyes and ears knows by now, iPhone is becoming all the rage. Yet there are some of us who refuse to get caught up in the hype. So that is the problem?

Well, for me, it's a case of being locked in. iPhone offers 2 ways of developing application - HTML 2.0 or Objective-C. The first choice is a joke for anything serious, the second means you have to write an application for - and only for - the iPhone. In a market that has many players, this is ridiculous. I simply cannot justify investing in developing an iPhone application.

This is the same reason I don't use Microsoft Visual C++ (or even C# for that matter); I want to hit as many targets as possible, not just Windows. By using Java 2 Standard Edition, I can target Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, BSD, etc., etc.

This was the whole point of Java 2 Micro Edition - write your app once and run it on any J2ME compatible cell-phone/smart-phone. When Palm removed J2ME support from their PDA's there was a large outcry - and yet everyone seems fine with iPhone never having it to begin with.

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