Opinion: Apple iPhone will be a downer

Oliver at MobileCrunch posted a great contrarian article: "Why the I-Phone will be Apple's huge blunder." In short, the iPod's greatest asset is its user interface and design. But that's a big problem for a cell phone: Browsing the Web, writing email and making voice calls are all very different tasks, and it is extremely difficult to create a device that does them all well. It's a whole lot harder than just worrying about audio playback. Blog