Windows Phone Thoughts: The iPhone: Pretending to be a Smartphone?

An amusing comic strip posted over at istartedsomething.com. It certainly raises the interesting point that a "smartphone" that you can't install applications onto isn't much of a smartphone...and when you factor in that it's not 3G, and there's no keyboard, you start to wonder how successful this will be among the I'll-pay-$500 mobile device crowd. It's still Apple, so there's some "wow" factor with the hardware design. Push IMAP email only through Apple? Puh-lease. I think Apple may discover that they can stick people with all sorts of proprietary junk if they're buying an iPod, but when it comes to phones people want it to do what they want it to do. Apple may face an uphill battle here...