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Aissen
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Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was lau...
> - No mention of[…] Java support. Lack of Java would shut out a big mass of existing SW
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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.
philipwhiuk
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Which was true, but developers decided it was worth writing new SW for iPhone when the App Store was unveiled (which was significantly later).
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