Apple's newest iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit, for those not so inclined) shows some of the same business decisions that made Microsoft a target for ire from the tech-community. Specifically, it appears that Apple has chosen to prevent the use of Firefox, a web-browser competitor of their own Safari on the popular iPhone. Though not enumerated as a verbotten software per se, Firefox and other similar applications are constructively prohibited by Apple's ban on Javascript, a key software language implemented in Firefox, and in conflict with the plans of Web 2.0.
Sun Microsystem's initial inclination toward a possible legal remedy seems to have ebbed, as Sun is readying a iPhone-specific Java answer.
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