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Originally Posted by webwise

Apple has never been one to jump on the "be all things to all people" bandwagon. They create beautiful products that do KEY THINGS exceptionally well...(in this case, phone, internet, mail, & media player).

The fact is, there probably isn't anything that is not in the upcoming iPhone (factoring in the Apps in the App Store) that someone will consider a "must have" feature in order to consider the iPhone vastly more useful (even if there are some you can think of - any iPhone developer now has the infrastructure to create that feature and earn money doing it - how cool is that!).

Here's my commentary of some of those "necessary" features being talked about from time to time:

- Editing documents (i.e. word, excel, etc.)...does anyone really want to use a handheld device to edit these documents on a regular basis? There may be a few, but the majority wouldn't - and I'm with the majority. That's what notebooks are for.

- Better camera..."better" is so relative here - because the photographer has a different meaning of better versus the business person versus the technology geek. The iPhone has a decent phone camera. Do you really want a "better" camera that will add to the size and/or cost to the device? I probably would, but most won't. And video? I bet it'll be in the app store in no time.

- Copy/paste - I agree this is a "nice to have". But the lack thereof hasn't kept me from being unproductive...in fact, it would probably frustrate me to have to use it frequently on a mobile device (back to my "edit documents" point above)...

The tradeoff for Apple to be "all things to all people" is the device's usability. Think about WHY people love the device (or why YOU do). I bet your answer (and everyone you ask) will include the phrase "simple to use", or "best user experience", or "fun to use"...and it's all because Apple reinvented the mobile device that handles email/phone/internet/media player seamlessly and elegantly.[/b]

I do believe the physical keyboard is a strong argument, particularly for the business user - and I believe Apple is addressing this as we speak...

My 2 cents. OK, 13 cents.

Yes I would love a better camera, even if that means more size and weight. I would love to edit office docs, but I am sure you can probably use google docs through internet on it to do that. And yeah I hope they are addressing the keyboard thing. Maybe a bluetooth mini keyboard, would kick ....