Does your (1) point refer just to Flash? It's certainly possible to get a JVM to run on an ARM-based CPU. As regards (3), Java the language may be outdated (po

Does your (1) point refer just to Flash? It's certainly possible to get a JVM to run on an ARM-based CPU. As regards (3), Java the language may be outdated (possibly a debatable point) but Java the virtual machine probably isn't. Both Scala and Clojure are written by seemingly bright people who chose to use the JVM rather than another alternative (Scala code can in theory be compiled to run on the .NET runtime but in practise I understand that's somewhat difficult to achieve). It's easy to write Scala apps for Android phones and I don't see any reason why they wouldn't run just fine on an iPad/iPhone.