This doesn't make much sense to be honest. Just because two companies don't see eye to eye on an executive level and are competing on some products doesn't mean

This doesn't make much sense to be honest. Just because two companies don't see eye to eye on an executive level and are competing on some products doesn't mean they will take a flamewar over languages and make business decisions based on that. That's nonsense. You might be interested to know that Apple has released products built on top of python, such as the calendar server (which is open source, and built on top of Twisted). How would that possibly fit into your theory? Or what of the python objective c bridge? Both python and ruby come preinstalled on OS X, I don't think Apple as a company has a preference for one or the other.