Maybe Apple will own the next disruptive platform (iPhone) and objective-C will have its day after all.
BTW: "OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them." http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...
And it seems that Objective-C performance is much closer to C than to python. http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-dev/2000-May...
That's... a pretty cool combination.