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I-Day iPhone perspective: News you can use

What's important about the iPhone's official debut that we missed? Please join in.

I love my iPod. I love my MacBook. Fake Steve Jobs (http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/) is not too shabby. Along with the rest of the universe, I was preparing to love the iPhone, until today when the real Steve Jobs announced the way third party developers would be allowed to add applications: the Web. That's right, the iPhone will come complete with Safari, and developers will be able to harness the power of Web 2.0 to create software with all of the same bells and whistles as native iPhone applications.

According to Apple, this allows third party applications to "extend the iPhone's capabilities without compromising its security or reliability." Uh ... that's scary. It's already hard to get Web security right, and giving the Web browser access to your contacts, your photos, and your music just ups the penalty for getting it wrong. If the Web is the platform of the future, then cross-site scripting is the next buffer overflow. This is bad news.

I'm going to stop writing iPhone and start writing iP0wn.

Tech Republic is "late to the gate" with most of this
information, as almost all the
information disclosed here has been on the Mac Rumors
(and others) sites for
days. Last Friday evening, people already had the iPhone
apart, and pictures were
up on the web.

The iPhone is such a hot consumer device that the
consumer-side news outlets
hsve, nearly instantaneously, covered this event in
excruciating detail.