The trouble with competing with Apple, aside from the supply chain mountain to surmount, is that the smarts and guts of the iPad have been in development (loosely) for a couple of decades (going back to the graphical features of Objective C developed at NeXT).

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If you can tell from what your app needs to do that you will need to go native, bite the bullet and learn one of the native tongues (Objective C for iOS or Java for Android.) Bell strongly advises that if you go the mobile route, pick iOS or Android and build for that first.

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Is your expertise in PHP, JavaScript or Objective-C?

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And building a very basic development tool might encourage more people to eventually learn how to program Objective-C, or whatever iPhone apps are coded with in the future, giving the iPhone platform a stronger farm system.

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The full story views are snappy because the HTML processing and rendering is written in Objective-C, and because we only display core document content, we can smartly decide what page resources to load and which to not load.

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If you had CV-22 type technology, could have been done with a single in-and-out pass -- albeit with helicopter refueling with C-130 type assets -- moving directly into the objective area, and then being able to extract during that, again, single period of darkness.

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