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Nobody's really noticed, but he's also leapfrogging traditional software developers and making the network the computer. No other smartphone on the market has the ability to actually utilize Web 2.0 software--that's why the full-featured Safari browser means so much. Who cares if you can look at the NY Times all at once? Read the times in an RSS feed. What really matters that you can use the iPhone with Flickr and Youtube and Outside.in (especially something like Outside.in!). Nothing else out there can do that.

The device has limited processing power and limited hard drive space. Apple wants you to fill that hard drive space with movies and music, not the bloatware that Adobe and Microsoft have been dumping on them for years. That's why Google and Yahoo were onstage at the announcement and Microsoft and Adobe were nowhere to be found. This Apple telling them: "Thanks for the years of half-assed development, now take a hike." Only Apple (and maybe a few select vendors) are going to be allowed onto the platform. Everything else will be done through the web--as it should be.

Well, anyway, that's how I want it to be. Apple probably will have to let 3rd party developers on to the platform. As a regular user of Adobe software I'm just sick of their crap. Apple seemed to be screwing Adobe pretty good with Motion and Final Cut. But who knows. The only real question I can't figure is if the iPhone comes preinstalled with Flash.