“I’m a J2ME developer. From my perspective, Java has always been ‘hampered’ by the degree of difficulty in building robust and intuitive UIs. Steve Jobs has wonderfully liberated us with the advent of the iPhone SDK. I’m a Java/Windows developer moving to the Apple development world and while I’m intrigued by the idea of Java on my favorite mobile device, I’m not sure folks really realize the genius of the iPhone UI paradigm,” Don Babcock writes for The Wireless Developer’s Journal.

Babcock writes, “I’d go so far as to say that the iPhone is THE platform for the future of mobile computing.”

MacDailyNews Note: And the iPod touch, of course.

Babcock continues, “Lest you think me an Apple ‘fan boy,’ for the record I don’t yet own a Mac. However, after watching the video of how the iPhone SDK works and since that SDK only plays on Macs, I’m going to drop a thousand on a Mac Book. It’s well worth the investment just to play in the iPhone world.”

Full article here.

After about a week with your first Mac, Don, you’ll never be the same – in a very good way. We envy what’s about to happen to you since we’ll never get to experience it. We’ve been Mac users since there have been Macs, so we’ll never know the ultra-epihany you’re about to get after subjecting yourself to Windows for a decade or so (shudder!) and then discovering Mac. We’ll just have to settle for memories of the original Mac epiphany that screamed, “This is how computing should be!”

Of course, we do know the opposite feeling well. It’s Pavlovian with us; just turning on a Windows PC gets the obscene language flowing. We still can’t believe people subject themselves to that garbage for 8+ hours of that per day. It’s just plain sick! We couldn’t take 8 minutes a day.

You’ll know soon enough, Don. Oh, and welcome home, finally!