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vetinari on March 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why did Objective-C never catch on? (Ask Slashdot,...

I think that sohn's point is not that PhoneGap/Titanium/etc are more popular than they really are, but that most iOS apps are really written in C/C++ with only thin shim to interface with iOS where necessary (think games portable to other platforms).

rsynnott on March 30, 2012 [–]

Which is, indeed, true for some games, particularly high-end games. However, the bulk of apps on iOS are not high-end games.

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