I'll wait for Apple to provide their own explanation. But it goes without saying that Cocoa and Objective-C are still small potatoes compared to Flash and C#/.

I'll wait for Apple to provide their own explanation. But it goes without saying that Cocoa and Objective-C are still small potatoes compared to Flash and C#/.NET, despite the iPhone's recent popularity with developers. Platforms are always competing for developers, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that Apple would take steps to protect the viability of their development platform.