No, that depends on the developer. A lot of developers don't want to worry about memory management and memory leaks. That has nothing to do with what I said. I

No, that depends on the developer. A lot of developers don't want to worry about memory management and memory leaks. That has nothing to do with what I said. If you want to avoid the peak memory overhead of using a GC (and the peak memory overhead is quite a bit higher if you don't want to kill performance -- you'd need to run the GC after every statement that could possibly kill garbage otherwise), you need to use C or C++. And as for other mobile platforms -- Windows Mobile allows C++, IPhone is in Objective-C, Symbian is C++, etc. Java is popular, but it's not overwhelmingly so. And this is even taking into account that it's easier to get a Java based device approved by carriers/regulators because the VM can trap more attempts to break the OS and thus make sure that you can't trick the software into doing out-of-spec stuff. GC is a wonderful tool. it prevents leaks, but it needs more memory when you're rapidly generating garbage. I wouldn't want to program without it... unless I'm trying to shoehorn things onto a tiny system.