"Them's fightin' words!" is what I said out loud when I read that. I've programmed extensively in C# and barely at all in Objective-C, and I wouldn't say such

"Them's fightin' words!" is what I said out loud when I read that. I've programmed extensively in C# and barely at all in Objective-C, and I wouldn't say such a thing. C# is a very nice language, but such things really come down to tool support and standard library. And legions of dedicated NSCoders will tell you that their platform is a very nice one indeed. The actual story here is that big companies who have lots of c# code/programmers can now use those to write iPhone apps. Presumably this means the .Net remoting / WCF as well, which is easily worth a grand to someone who's already running apps with those technologies. In that very narrow universe, I'll buy the productivity argument.