Dude. You can thank Citrix for making you completely wrong here. The iphone has the Citrix Receiver: http://bit.ly/16twzZ

I’d call that a useful, corporate application

I’ll even conjugate it. (iPhone, youPhone, theyPhone)

It is not a PC. True.

I’ve heard the argument that it runs a stripped down version of OSX, thus making it a computer. I guess that means a T-Mobile G1 phone is a computer, because it runs a linux kernel at its core.

Nope.

Here’s the basic, core, root answer to that. If the iPhone were a computer, I could do with it what I want. I can’t. To even run “unlicensed” programs, I’d have to unlock and jailbreak it.

According to the rules, if I want to write a program for my iPhone, I have to pay Apple $299 to get an “ad-hoc” license. That, however, is more of a FLOSS topic.

Bottom line is: The iPhone is designed as a phone with an application platform. It may have a fairly rich application platform, but nobody threw a press conference when the first iPod could play Brick Breaker, now did they?

It’s a fucking toy. It’s a capable toy, with practical application, but anything that the iPhone can do, a better alternative exists.

Have fun with that flashlight app. Or that iBeer app. Or that iFart app. Get back to me when the iPhone, or Windows CE (Mobile), or even Android offers a useful, corporate application. We have a little ways to go.

I think you mean it’s not a PC, which is true — for now. Draw a line from the first iPod to the iPhone and extrapolate that curve, baby.

and windows mobile phones just suck because they’re slow as a thirsty mule.