Are C/C++/ObjC/Swift/JS Apple's only allowed languages for iPhone development?

Question

According to this post on Daring Fireball a new iPhone SDK Agreement release in conjunction with the iPhone OS 4.0 announcement today specifically bans any iPhone appli

Answer 1

This has been causing friction between apple and developers since they first opened up cocoa touch.

There was the Commodore 64 issue: http://gizmodo.com/5354422/commodore-64-iphone-app-approved-removed

The c-64 emulator allowed access to the basic CLI and was removed by apple.

There was also a lot of discussion on the Lua list: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-10/msg00015.html

Lua can be built on the iPhone arm processor from the c source so is this considered c or Lua?

Some applications using Lua have been accepted: http://tuomaspelkonen.com/2010/03/why-lua-truly-rocks/

Unity uses scripting languages as a part of its API and many Unity games have been accepted: http://unity3d.com/gallery/game-list/

...including Zombieville which "was recognized in Apple's iTunes Rewind 2009 as one of the top-selling games of the year".

I can't see them removing all of these games at this point.

What people have been most frustrated with is that there does not seem to be a single standard for what is accepted and what is not. Do big players like Adobe and Unity get special privileges to use scripting which smaller groups do not?