[axod]

Definitely. After all, other closed restrictive platforms such as games consoles only contain rubbish.

For every clojure zealot, there are probably 10 objective-c developers who will be happy with less competition.

[tumult]

This is a mistaken claim. Naughty Dog, for example, uses a precompilation phase in their games involving Lisp that builds into machine and graphics code. Most games, too, have a dynamic runtime in the form of a customized scripting engine in their game, tailored to the needs of their game. Sometimes this is done with a pre-existing language like Lua, sometimes it's built from scratch, like UnrealScript (Unreal1 - 3 engines). All of these are now banned.

[smallblacksun]

Interpreters that run on the iphone have always been banned.

[tumult]

Before, it was just interpreters that could load in external code, i.e. user input or the internet. Now, they are all banned.