I know I’m late to the iPhone development party, and consequently I’m also late to the Objective-C debates. But I can’t help but chime in; so here goes . . . Back in the Day Back in the C programming days (while I was apparently sleeping), there seem to have been two directions: The C++ road, and the objective-C road. I have never seen Objective-C until OS-X, and I have never worked with it until a couple of weeks ago, but there is certainly a lot of goodness going on here – much more than C++ ever...

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New Apple iMac Arrives The latest edition to the growing home computing center is an Apple iMac (Intel E7600 Core 2 Duo/8Gb RAM/1Tb HD/21.5"), which I promptly setup to use Boot Camp with Windows 7 as the default OS. This makes a great Family Room machine, in Windows or MacOS (despite missing HDMI port), and doubles as the iPhone development platform. What is more interesting is the purchase survey, which I took today. Apple New Purchase Survey Going though the questions it became clear that there...