The physical keyboard note is laughable. Most iPhone users have no problems with it. I switched from a Blackberry to an iPhone and after a week of heavy keybo

The physical keyboard note is laughable. Most iPhone users have no problems with it. I switched from a Blackberry to an iPhone and after a week of heavy keyboard use, I am now just as fast / error free. I'm not sure exactly how the iPhone is playing off the "iPod gimmick" or what exactly the "iPod gimmick" is. The iPod is an established brand name and a very easy to use portable media player. The iPhone offers the same easy-to-use interface. Think back two years ago, and see what other smart phones were doing with media players...Blackerry's was an absolute joke, and not one of them had a halfway decent web browser. In comes Apple and they fix most of the key issues. They made the mobile web useful and actually integrated phone and iPod into a single device. You can call that a gimmick all you want, but they were the first to do it properly. The App Store also addressed a major concern in mobile apps distribution. Since then, everyone is just copying what Apple has done and try to innovate in between. What we end up with is a poor attempt by RIM (Storm), a OS that falls behind the iPhone from Google (not to mention running on inferior hardware) and whatever trash is running on Windows Mobile. I'm not saying that there isn't a market for the Pre, but it's market isn't going to be current iPhone users. I just don't see the Pre being a game changer at all for Apple. If they ever break exclusivity from AT&T, it's just going to get worse for the competition. There is too much momentum and not enough room for innovation. We'll see what happens once it's released. I know one thing though...Apps are going to be the lifeblood of mobile devices in the future. If I'm an App developer and I only have one platform to release on, it's going to be the iPhone. Where will the Pre sit on this chain? I don't think it's going to be near the front.