The Death of MacRuby for iPhone?
It’s not that Apple doesn’t want “some other company” to establish a higher level language standard; it’s that Apple doesn’t want any company to do that — including Apple. The reasoning is the same: if Apple were to allow developers to write iPhone apps using MacRuby (i.e. Ruby 1.9), there would be nothing to stop those apps from being moved to other mobile platforms that also support Ruby.