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No Microsoft, this is what's humorous:

Developing applications for the iPhone and iPad is expensive, he said, because iPhone OS uses the Objective C language rather than Microsoft’s more pervasive .NET platform.

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Same here, I literally laughed out loud at that, and read it to a nearby programmer. I've used .NET and Cocoa, he's used .NET, and we both think it's a laughable claim. Personally, I vastly prefer Cocoa's API / frameworks to .NET.

Programming for Apple products is frickin easy.

I thought the same thing. Why would a device created by apple run on a platform created by Microsoft.

It can also run Mono, so this makes very little sense.

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