Comment by Aissen
> - No mention of[…] Java support. Lack of Java would shut out a big mass of existing SW
> - No mention of[…] Java support. Lack of Java would shut out a big mass of existing SW
Which was true, but developers decided it was worth writing new SW for iPhone when the App Store was unveiled (which was significantly later).
Java was a bonus compared to ObjC, but we looked into supporting Blackberry and it was a nightmare to support all the different versions of java, frameworks, and screen types. Much easier to teach someone ObjC and produce one iPhone version.