The Apple of sin

I realize that I am biased against Apple as I'm not a fanboi of them and do not buy their products, but this time the situation is really ridicolous. As you may have read in one of the dozens of posts about the issue, Apple has decided that if you want to use the iPhone 4.0 SDK, you cannot choose the language to write your applications in (yes, also the linked posts are biased.)

3.3.1 … Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).

It simply does not make sense. Well, it makes sense from their business perspective, but not from the users and developers point of view. Users get less choice for apps, while developers are forced to use a particular environment which they may not be familiar with. Someone said that this is a move to prevent compilation of Flash applications into C (like Facebook has done with HipHop for PHP), a possible solution to get them running on the iPad.
Perception of software development is often confused from many people, so let's extend the metaphor to other fields, showing what would happen if this prohibition would be applied there:

• you're not allowed to edit images that will be displayed by Apple products with Photoshop (ops, Adobe). You shall use the iPencil instead and scan your drawings in a iJpeg, which is like a normal Jpeg but costs a dollar a piece.
• you're not allowed to write your PDF files displayed on Apple products with OpenOffice.org and export them in this format. You must use iWork (this one really exists.)
• you're not allowed to play musical instruments to produce songs that will be stored on the iPod or similar products. You must use GarageBand instead.

And of course, you're not allowed to write your own source code the way you want it, and then compile (ops, this is real.) But my source code is my own business: if I want to write it in Brainfuck, I'll definitely write it in Brainfuck. It's Turing-complete, so Steve where's the problem?
Of course I will continue not buying anything from Apple.