pushing the sky

I know, I know, the iPhone is all over the web this week. But here’s something to bust the bubble – interesting to consider that Apple missed these oh-so-common features when doing user-eval (I can only imagine they did – surely Jobs wasn’t the only evaluator, right?). Indeed, it seems like the iPhone was going to be the ever-hyped Video Touchscreen iPod (6G) with Phone, rather than primarily a phone.

Ed: updated for 2008/iPhone 3G.

Ed Note 2: All of the above shortcomings/complaints have been taken care of with the iPhone 3GS. See, Apple can get it right… eventually. Now it’s just a costly mofo.