"Hmm, we're not able process your request."
Judging by how often we've seen this error message on the Apple iPhone Dev Center site the past couple of weeks, it seems that the iPhone SDK is extremely popular with developers. Either that, or developers are so confused by the new SDK learning curve, that they're hammering the dev center site seeking better documentation.
My guess is we're seeing a mix of the two. Developers who are unfamiliar with Mac OS X development have several hurdles to jump when learning iPhone development: Objective-C, Xcode, and of course Cocoa. There are of course similarities between Eclipse and Xcode, Cocoa Touch and Android, Objective-C and Java, but they're not identical.
Still, given a little time, I think most tenacious developers will agree that it's not extremely difficulty to pick up the iPhone SDK after having worked with, say, J2ME.
Posted by todd at March 17, 2008 07:06 PM