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The point is also that with iOS you don’t have a choice BUT to use Objective C. You can’t use alternates.

BUT... your information is inaccurate again, as usual. iPhone apps can be written in Objective-C, Javascript, C++ and plain old C languages. Apple is now accepting apps developed with Adobe's iPhone compiler. The C64 app has a BASIC interpreter. At my shop, we also use some of those languages on the server side to support communications with iPhone client apps. PHP works especially well with iPhones in a client-server arrangement, in combination with other systems like Apache and MySQL, although we sometimes use the iPhone's built-in SQLite database system too.

Meanwhile, Google is getting sued by Oracle over their use of the Java language, which is owned by Oracle after their acquisition of Sun Microsystems. No one can predict how that will turn out.

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Please cut the attacks...

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Or, it might be better to say that no one can predict with any certainty how Oracle's lawsuit against Google over the Java language will affect the Android platform. Anyone can make a prediction, but no one knows the outcome of the lawsuit yet. Android programmers may be able to continue using Java if Google loses the lawsuit, but there is a risk that they will have to trash their current apps too.

Is Google indemnifying Android developers if they use Java? Not yet, according to this article. So if Oracle wins the lawsuit, they may be able to sue third-party Android developers on an individual basis.