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> more boilerplate than Java

whatever. Objective-C is far closer to the elegant dynamism of SmallTalk than Java.

> manual memory management

Makes sense. This is a resource constrained device.

> lack of namespaces

This is a phone not an enterprise server.

> header files

On a device with an underpowered processor the focus on C-based languaged has been paying back serious dividends as far as the responsiveness of the platform's applications.




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