So, I've been thinking about how all iPhone apps are going to be Cocoa (to take advantage of Core Animation), and I though about how the interfaces for those apps are going to be built. I think that the current toolchain requires them to be created programmatically, but thinking about all of those Cocoa developers that are going to have a hard time leaving Interface Builder and going back to something more clunky, I would have to say that there may be either a special version of Interface Builder for the iPhone; an iPhone interface builder template; or a different kind of nib file for iPhone apps (like .mib). I think Apple will want to try to win over Android developers, who use .xml files for their layouts (true, NIBs are just a fancy wrapper for XML files, but Interface Builder makes it so much easier). Come on, Apple. I think Apple may be using all available time until February to get this done, and it may release near the end of February.
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