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1) Good point. Using the backdoor of the app store would just be easier for them to do (I would imagine).

2) Maybe they will be bringing along the big guys, in the future. Java is being deprecated (http://bit.ly/cFp0GX) in the future the may require apps to use the standard API.

3) ARM chips are getting much better. The A-15 is going to be multicore and be up to 2.5 GHz (http://bit.ly/bhVKBP). It is totally possible for apple engineers, gotten from PA Semi, to string together more cores to make a more powerful process. Difficult and costly, but possible.

The problem I see with this line of thinking is that ARM is only a 32 bit arch right now and I don't know of any plans on changing that. Also, having the big guys convert their software over to using ARM instructions over intel (point 2) would be really painful, I think. LLVM and some good virtualization might help mitigate this, but I would have to research that more.

Also, I'm probably completely wrong and I'm fine with that. You have very good points and I appreciate all of them.