dchoung

Nothing really to post about. Working on my first iPhone app, and once done with that, planning on jumping back into webOS development.

I spend random moments in the day thinking why a device such as the iPhone did so well. Not that I'm completely baffled, but trying to boil it down to its basest element, I think it's because it was truly imbued with a kind of 'magic' that dazzled developers and consumers alike.

Let's not forget that prior to the iPhone the only alternatives (In the US at least) were Palm OS and Windows Mobile. While these 'strictly business' OS' had their benefits, neither really made people go 'ooh' and 'ahh' like the iPhone did with its smooth view transitions and added extras like an accelerometer.

Objective-C is a pain for a slow-minded server-side/client-side script monkey such as myself. When I first took a look at Objective-C code all I saw were brackets within brackets, within brackets. Not to say that it's horrendous, it just made my head spin initially.

So, back to the point, it wasn't the ease-of-use of the programming language that drew developers in, it was simply the magic.

That's all I've got to say about that for now.