>Thomas, I agree with you, and great link.
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>I'm not sure that throwing money and manufacturing developer fanfare will work this time. A phone is a personal device- unlike a PC on an office desk or even a notebook, and certainly unlike a business software suite. Smart people don't always jump just because something is free- e.g. my wife prefers the MSI x320 I bought for her to the free notebook that came from the hospital. The hospital notebook is actually quite a nice HP, but she prefers the lightweight and undoubtedly cool mini. IMHO phones will be even worse- already many businesses have had to support iPhone because so many execs have turned up expecting to use it.

I just wish the service providers and apple would get their act together. My iphone had a glitch recently. It would not take an over the air update. So I lost 3G network access. Reported the problem. Was advised to backup my phone. Reset the phone. Had 3g network access, but none of my personal data. Restored from the backup and lost my 3g again. So the choice was lose my personal data or lose the internet access. My data is mine. Subsystem stuff that is theirs should not get intermingled with what is mine.