title: Why No NSAttributedString on the iPhone?
body: <p>Does anyone know what made Apple leave out NSAttributedString when turning AppKit into UIKit?</p>
  
  <p>The reason I ask is that I would really like to use it in my iPhone app, and there appears to be no replacement or alternative than doing it myself...</p>
  
  <p>It is possible to have mixed font attributes on a string - it's just a hell of a lot of work to to achieve something similar that was possible with a few lines of code with NSAttributedString.</p>
  
  <p>Also, doing all this extra drawing code myself makes my table view cells really heavy, and really hurts performance.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone got any ideas? Any genius's working on an opensource alternative to NSAttributedString?</p>