If the iPhone continues its strong showing in the smart phone market, there's going to be a new demand for iPhone developers in the mobile space. Which means there's going to be a bunch of people learning Cocoa and the Mac OS X APIs who wouldn't otherwise have given them a look. →
This code is the result of two conflicting factors. On one hand, since the constructor in question takes an arbitrary character encoding, the case of the encoding being unavailable must be taken into account. On the other hand, 90% of code that calls this constructor will be explicitly invoking a character set that is required to be provided with the Java Runtime Environment. →