I'm not really sure what you're talking about; his whole point referring to Objective-C was that the reason it's popular isn't because of any of its particular

I'm not really sure what you're talking about; his whole point referring to Objective-C was that the reason it's popular isn't because of any of its particular language features (i.e. "other languages are equally powerful"), it's popular because Apple took it and built a whole bunch of great libraries with it for its computers so that, if you want to program applications on a Mac, and you want to use things like Core animation and all of that, you're probably going to end up using Objective-C.