iPhone is a trojan horse for Mac software development

Posted: March 6th, 2008 | Author: John Koetsier | Filed under: tags-not-categories | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

I’m watching VP of iPhone software for Apple, Scott Forstall, in today’s Apple Event.

He’s demo’ing the API and development environment, and my first thought was: this is a trojan horse for Mac OS X development.

Thousands of developers are going to want to write applications for the hottest mobile device on the market … and as they do so, they’ll all be learning how to program for a Mac, using the same tools – the same development environment.

This is going to pay dividends for many years to come.

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