> I am just questioning if it was all planned to come out exactly this way from the beginning... The article makes no such claim about the iPhone. The only evi

> I am just questioning if it was all planned to come out exactly this way from the beginning... The article makes no such claim about the iPhone. The only evidence you cite is the app store. That does not refute that Apple intended on building, from the start, a "more personal computer" that "reduces the phone to an app" and "gains concessions from [carriers]". That's exactly what the original iPhone was and still is. It even launched with support for 3rd party (web) apps.