The cocoa name
"Cocoa is indeed an odd name for a development framework - nothing to do with chocolate. But then, I guess Java hasn't got much to do with coffee... ;-)"
Though oddly enough Cocoa has a lot to do with Java. Cocoa is only named as such due to the Java bridge that existed from 10.0 to 10.4 (you can still write new apps but they don't offer any new features, though why you'd want to code in Java when you can use Obj-C I don't know). Though I don't really see how the name Cocoa is stupid for a development environment when you also have names like Swing, Rails etc. Half of names for products are a bit silly, the other half are boring ;)
I'm also interested to know how the GUI development will work. It would be pretty bad if Apple expected you to write code to generate your UIs. Do existing iPod/iPhone apps have NIB files? This could point to the use of Interface Builder for creating the UIs. Also, are you sure that they're using CoreFoundation, as that is the C based API. I was under the impression the iPod/iPhone used the bog standard Foundation.framework (which is the Obj-C layer built upon CoreFoundation) and replaced AppKit with UIKit on the GUI side
Biting the hand that feeds IT
