I'm sure that's not all he "beats"

Great...because people aren't crappy enough drivers with an interface that they understand and have been using for decades.

How clueless are you? Do you think that Soldiers write all the software for the military? Do you think that they build all of the ships and planes? It's called the military INDUSTRIAL complex for fucks sake.

Oh yes, every game developer would MUCH rather program in Java than in C/C++ (of which Obj-C is a superset). It is soooo much easier to write OpenGL code in Java than in C. What a joke. This article is completely idiotic.

You couldn't possibly be any less correct when you say, "The mobile market is a playground for the big boys." Particularly in reference to the iPhone! Haven't you read a paper in the last year?? All kinds of one man shops are making money building apps for the iPhone. The App store has truly empowered 'lone wolf' developers to build software and sell it on a scale that could never be reached before without massive budgets.
I have personally built a few apps for the store and have made over $10k this year. By myself. After work. On the side.

I have to call BS on this comment. There is no reason that you can't write an iPhone app with all of its business logic in C or C++ and only do the UI in Obj-C/Cocoa. This is just like writing any other n-tier application with C or C++ business components and a modular/thin front end and a database abstaction layer. You can use the business logic anywhere and just re-write the interface to take advantage of the interface options on your target platform.
Java? Please. No one would ever buy an app for the iPhone or a Mac that looks as shitty as any Swing or AWT Java application. Hell, I wouldn't even want to run that crap on Linux or Windows.

I'd prefer to lose my phone and shell out another $500 then receive a violent beat down at the hands of some street thug.
It was pretty stupid of these guys to go after the phone.

More stereotypes for you:
Most Indian tech grads are un-understandable.
Most Indian tech grads don't know how to read and implement a specification
Most Indian tech grads don't shower enough.

Why doesn't MS just spend the time building an OS that is not as vulnerable to viruses and malware? Since they won't do that, why not just build the AV stuff in at a lower lever so that it is not obvious to the user that they are even running AV? MS likes to sneak stuff in under your nose anyway, why not something that will make the OS safer and more stable? Oh yeah, it's probably because of some conspiricy like they are the major shareholder in Symantec or Norton...

Is it possible (or likely) that the governments of China and Russia subsidized the contestants from their respective countries?? I consider myself a pretty good coder. I work 60 hour weeks and do side development work as well. Do I have time to devote to something like this?? No. If my government said that they would pay my salaray for a month while I took part in this, I would surely do it.

I thought that Apple rejected that app??!!

"A turd by any other name still stinks really badly"

The article says that it could cost AT LEAST $200.
I'm not sure what kind of crappy journalism that is.... The author might as well have just said we have no idea how much it will cost, but it will certainly not be free.

Yes! And when you build a house, you should only use hand tools!! A real car has no electronics either!!! Give me a break. You should use the right tools for the job. If someone wants to use an IDE becuase it has code completion, built in docs, etc. So be it!!

Maybe next year will be the year for Linux on the desktop. All jokes aside, until you can just drag and drop to install apps on Linux (like OS X), Linux will not be accepted on the desktop. 99.99% of users don't want to (and shouldn't need to) bring up a terminal window. If you ever have to bring up a term to do anything, you can forget about wide acceptance. Most Windows users don't even know the command prompt is available.