I was not at the Apple WWDC – too much of a groupie thing. All the main news was about the iPhone.
But it does give one pause. How can the iPhone clones ever get anywhere? Sure, they can LOOK and maybe even FEEL like the iPhone, but where are the applications? There have been 250,000 developer downloads of the iPhone SDK.
If it is the apps that matter, then Apple has a lock. (And I don’t even believe in locks 
How they pulled this off is astonishing. Compare the buzz around iPhone with the Windows Mobile phones. MS has had a Windows Mobile product since 1997. There are 70 million Google hits for Windows Mobile. Apple released the iPhone less than 1 year ago – there are 220 million Google hits on iPhone. (iPhone has twice as many Google hits as BlackBerry at 108 Million – I think a very fair test given the unique names of both products.)
http://www.apple.com/iphone/webapps/
There are now 600 WebApps for iPhone. There will be more than 3,000 by the end of the year. Sure, most are stupid, but most BlackBerry apps at Handango are stupid (Wine Info, etc.). And the “install” is trivial. I tried to install Opera on my BlackBerry 4 times before I gave up. But every iPhone WebApp I install works right away.
Is it perfect? Hell no. It needs 3G. I’m not sure I like the size. But they will sell millions.
Now there is a $199 iPhone.
BTW, the Zero key on my BlackBerry broke about 6 weeks ago and I switched 100% over to my iPhone. And I mean cold turkey switched over. I turned off my BB service at T-Mobile. My two major issues are 100% solved: (1) IMAP mail solves the problem of mail being all unread; (2) New software feature locks the keyboard during calls. Can wear in pocket while talking. – Zero problems left.
Only 1 issue left to tackle – International Roaming. I got very used to easy BlackBerry email while out of the country. T-Mobile has a great plan. Apparently, the iPhone uses a lot of data BW and the bills are high. But that is not a phone issue, it is a plan issue.
