Is garbage collection supported for iPhone applications?

Question

Does the iPhone support garbage collection? If it does, then what are the alternate ways to perform the operations that are performaed using +alloc and -i

Answer 1

In the entire discussion nobody says about the Java language, in Java the Garbage collection is in-built in the language so it is implicitly available in Android,J2ME and Blackberry :), where as in Objective-C it is optional, so in iPhone the GC is not available.