2. NFC. You do realize that NFC has been used for years everywhere in the world except the U.S.? this isn’t some new tech that needs to grow. We ( America ) are just late to the party and Apple will be even later as usual. Is there any wonder why the iphone is losing share and ground? You can hype up Apple all you want, but the numbers don’t lie.

3. Entertainment center? I think every phone on the market has this going for them. I have all this stuff on my phone and by the end of the year I’ll be turning on my tv, lights, microwave etc with my phone. The games are the same games that are on the iphone but I’m not really into little phone video games since I’m a hardcore gamer. I use my xbox 360 or PS3 for that. People that play video games on their phone aren’t gamers so it’s not the same.

I particularly agree with your point about NFC; until the market is ready for this, which outside Japan mostly, the world has not woken up to the technology yet, it seems unlikely that Apple will push for the system on their phones. Well, it will either play out like that, or Apple will surprise everybody by beating the curve and push another pioneering piece of technology into our lives, even before we ever knew we needed it (à la iPad).

Even all the mistakes Apple made… that have to follow that exact same plan in the future?

Huh?