You can write games for iPhone, therefore it is a gaming platform. A valid point, and I think when you're talking about today's hand-held gaming devices vs tod

You can write games for iPhone, therefore it is a gaming platform. A valid point, and I think when you're talking about today's hand-held gaming devices vs today's mobile phones, you've got a meaningful comparison because the consumer can reasonably substitute a phone for a PSP or similar, but I'm not sure what is meaningful about comparing the lifetime of Apple's work in the mobile sector to one or two iterations of various gaming consoles across various timeframes. Also AFAIK the four generations of iPhones can all run the same software Not true in many cases. Consider that the first two iPhone models can't even run fully featured firmware because of hardware limitations.