"not to mention not having to deal with stuff like pointers or waiting for Apple's SDK to come out" Well, you don't have to wait, as evidenced by every iPhone

"not to mention not having to deal with stuff like pointers or waiting for Apple's SDK to come out" Well, you don't have to wait, as evidenced by every iPhone app, Jiggy included. And since when did garbage collection mean not having to deal with pointers? Not having to deal with memory management is not the same thing. In Java, everything is basically a pointer.