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Based on the Motorola guy's comment, I can't help speculating that they will retarget their system to parse Objective-C, implement Cocoa Touch, and emit something that can be run on Android phones -- maybe Javascript. If there were an easy way to port iPhone apps to Android, Android would have a lot more apps.


From a technical perspective, this isn't likely the purpose of the acquisition. Cappuccino does relatively nothing in terms of making headway in parsing Objective-C, implementing a (native) Cocoa Touch or integration with the Dalvik VM system except by way of a browser.

Not to say that the 280North guys aren't capable of that but Cappuccino certainly isn't geared toward that type of goal.


If there were an easy way to port iPhone apps to Android, Android would have a lot more apps.

Until Apple changes the developer agreement to say that App Store apps may not be ported to other platforms, that is.




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