Me, as a developer, I can't fault the iPhone. I really enjoy the platform. Sure there are things that I wish it could do, but I tend to agree with Apple's stanc

Me, as a developer, I can't fault the iPhone. I really enjoy the platform. Sure there are things that I wish it could do, but I tend to agree with Apple's stance on most aspects. I remember developing for J2ME handsets in the past - That was a nightmare: I created an XMPP application and one thing in particular that stuck with me was that I was testing on a Sony Ericsson that was maybe 6 months old. A few weeks in to development I got another midlevel Sony Ericsson handset. The newer phone didn't support a feature that the older one did! (I can't particularly remember what it was - It was something really silly - like it didn't support alerts or something...) You ended up just supporting the lowest common denominator (Or trying too.) Argh! It was a nightmare - Every phone had its own UI and of course you couldn't test on every model (Who could afford that?). Phones didn't have the same amount of physical buttons. Every vendor implemented the SDK differently. Of course back then I wished that Flash Lite was released. I would have happily worked inside a non fragmented sandbox. We didn't even have browsers that you could reliably support. You just had to support the lowest common denominator and that was that. This wasn't even that long ago - Maybe 6 years?