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You don't have to use Objective-C, and you are free to use a language with a garbage collector:

You still have to have C in the end. The license agreement forces it upon you. That's disgusting.

That's not true. You can use any language/compiler combination that will compile to an ARM binary. See, for example, ArsTechnica's roundup of the state of C#/Mono on the iPhone: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/01/open-source-...