Flaunting those numbers does little in a debate over the merits of a device, unless you think every single customer in the world did a bang up job researching and understands every nuance and capability of said device.

I know naysayers iPhone is supposed to suck right? Meanwhile it is probably the most popular mobile device with over 25K apps and growing faster than all others!

The naysayers are plugging the Palm Pre without EVEN seeing it! The other moron above is talking Zune! HAHAHA Enough said!

Unlike the Zune’s social, that will allow you only to share a measly song or two for a rotten short period, on the iPhone it’s something that can be used in unlimited ways rather than the limited ways on a Zune!

It’s like Microsoft’s social, only better, because – it should actually be usable! Also, unlike the Zune, who’s users number far and in between, it’s not only usable, but one with millions of users!

You have to sign up for the iPhone developer program:

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/sdk.html

@Nick:

True. Good balanced response to all of this. My opinion is still that nothing is better than the iPhone/touch… that is, I’d rather have nothing than the iPhone/touch at this point in time.

I’ve held off buying an iPod touch for a different reason: I want 64GB. So for me, the best mobile device is nothing. When a 64GB or 128GB iPhone with a Pay as You Go plan arrives, I will buy it (my old AT&T PAYGO “plan” cost about $25 for three months, that’s how little I used it), but I just can’t afford to spend $2000 on a phone.

@Everyone:

There are tradeoffs. Not every phone will be strictly better or worse in every possible way. For many it appears Apple makes a great device that they are willing to live with. The 3.0 update will remove most of those “small” (obnoxious) reasons keeping people from using the iPhone/touch.

Pundits and smart alecks are missing the fact that what the iPhone does is not just some marketing gimmick, but actually has substantial convenience/fun factor gains IN NORMAL usage. Walk into the Apple store or borrow a friend’s iPhone and you can learn how everything works without reading the manual, just by playing with it. The same could not be said of my lame cheapo “feature” phone. Sure it may have worked in theory, in the end, eventually, but every moment I used it I felt like throwing it at a wall.

I still think not enough is being made of the fact that now that the iPhone is “caught up” to other phones’ basic feature list(s), what about all the new cool stuff announced for the iPhone (like auto discovery, accessories) that when you put it all together (combined with the old stuff form 1.0 days, like tilt and multi-touch, ACTUALLY USABLE GUI INTERFACE, that no iPhone killer has offered yet) makes for a software platform TODAY untouched by any competitor?

People arguing that the UI usability and conventions that form the core of the iPhone OS are less important (“1.0 features”) or are just marketing gimmicks (that could have been added later) seem to be the same ones complaining about the lack of copy paste in iPhone 1.0. The truth is, in the end, on some level these are convenience issues that can be worked around: phones with less “fun” interfaces can still be used, sort of, and on the iPhone you can manually copy and enter text laboriously, if you have to (not fun). But just like two cars, one with and one without cruise control, in actual use the difference is stunning. There: Apple added cruise control (copy paste) to their luxury sports sedan. Now when are the other manufacturers going to add a steering wheel and brakes to their jalopies?

Also, just because the iPhone is dominating sales, does not mean it’s the best device out there. That means they have the best marketing department. I think assuming every person out there that buys a phone is doing their due diligence and choosing the best one is a highly inaccurate assumption.