Steve Jobs Weighs In On iPhone Programming Language Mandate

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 11, 2010 @12:12AM from the he's-in-favor dept.

Dotnaught writes "Greg Slepak, founder of software company Tao Effect, wrote Apple CEO Steve Jobs to complain about Apple's mandate that iPhone applications be originally written in C/C++/Objective-C. Job's response was to endorse a post by John Gruber on the Daring Fireball blog. Jobs called it 'very insightful,' suggesting Gruber's prediction that third-party iPhone development tools are out might be right. Jobs sent a second reply that also doesn't bode well for third-party iPhone development tools: 'We've been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform.'"

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Re:Wooo first!!11!one!!eleven!!!eleventy-one!!!!1! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-04-11 00:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

First what?
Re:And this is why I don't buy Apple by Runaway1956 · 2010-04-11 00:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Life is just to short to dance with ugly women. Wallflowers are alright though - a lot of them are really great people once you get past their bashfulness.

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Re:Wooo first!!11!one!!eleven!!!eleventy-one!!!!1! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-04-11 01:44 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Does this mean I'm third?
YAY!!!!!
Not just top ten, but top three!!!!!!
EAT MY ASS, LOOSERZ!!!!!!!
Re:Wooo first!!11!one!!eleven!!!eleventy-one!!!!1! by zaphod777 · 2010-04-11 02:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

fag

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