"I seriously doubt that there will be any sort of exodus away from iPhone development because of this. " You are right, though there maybe an impact on more de

"I seriously doubt that there will be any sort of exodus away from iPhone development because of this. " You are right, though there maybe an impact on more developers coming into IPhone Dev. That said I would be surprised if at least some developers have had enough of Apple's high handedness and move away from it, like they did from Windows long ago because of Microsoft doing evil things. Just an anecdotal datapoint, but I for one was toying with the idea of buying a MacBookPro (though not yet an IPhone or IPad) and learning Objective C, but not any more. Objective C on Apple is now the programming language for Orcs, working for the fulfilment of Steveron the Dark Lord's World domination plans. What does developer unfriendliness matter if you get "teh new shiny" to play with every year? Ash Objective C durbatulûk, ash Objective C gimbatul, Ash Objective C thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.