Section 3.3.1 of iPhone OS Developer Agreement

We've been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces [sic] sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform.

- Steve Jobs on section 3.3.1 of iPhone OS Developer Agreement

The statement is sadly very true, for most time. As a developer using Objective-C ans Xcode, section 3.3.1 doesn't really change anything for me, and probably even a good news. That made the platform more homogeneous and well-staged.

However, I do feel bad for those developers that are betting their chips on Flash, MonoTouch, Unity etc. Their chance of coming to the iPhone are practically ruined. The only chance for them is to give up their platform/language and jump into the bitten apple circle.