iPhone

I’m sticking with my blackberry for the time being (mostly because t-mobile has me in a contract for another year) and to be honest it does most of the same basic functions as the new hotness that all my freinds are buying. One thing it can do that the iPhone can’t is copy and paste. Daring Fireball has a very interesting extrapolation as to Apple’s logic here.

The analogy that comes to mind is to the keyboard on the original Macintosh, which had no arrow keys. The most commonly cited reason for this omission was that Apple wanted to force users to use the mouse, and not allow them to fall back on keyboard-centric habits forged on pre-Mac computers. – read more…