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randallu on Sept 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Where oh where is Windows Phone 8?

I thought they didn't believe that people would actually use ObjC compared to newer managed languages (pretty safe bet IMO, but wrong in this case it turns out).

ams6110 on Sept 6, 2012 [–]

Actually now that I think about it the the Java stuff must date back to NeXT. Probably a strategy to sell into "the enterprise", which they were pretty hot on at one point.

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