“As tempting as it was to entertain the fantasy of learning Objective-C and producing a truly Internet-aware application that’s more than JavaScript and the DOM jammed together over HTTP, my sense of pragmatism took over four hours later. I could spend a few weeks writing a program that only a few people could use, on a locked down device running a locked down service — or I could continue to work on software free for anyone to use, not tied to a specific hardware platform or service.”
