I think your last point is key. Remember back in the day.. if you wanted a Nokia phone that played MP3's, you got the special model the played MP3s. That model

I think your last point is key. Remember back in the day.. if you wanted a Nokia phone that played MP3's, you got the special model the played MP3s. That model didn't really surf the net or have games. If you wanted to play games, you had to buy an NGage, and if you wanted to surf the net (poorly) you needed to get the net surfing phone (can't think of the model). Then there were the E series black berry knock offs. And once your phone's model year was up, that was it. You were stuck with what you had. I like my iPhone. It does 97% of what I want it to do. I could get the other 3% of features by getting an Android, but the Android doesn't match the 97% the iPhone has -- it's more like 80%. Plus, in Canada, my phone has to last 3 years -- that's the contract term up here. 3G's are 3 years old and can run iOS4. Let's see an Android that you buy from Telus or Rogers today run the latest Android in 3 years (even if it doesn't have 100% of the features).