I saw your point, I just think that given that mobile phones are now a platform instead of just a device, of course they're going to be influenced by many other

I saw your point, I just think that given that mobile phones are now a platform instead of just a device, of course they're going to be influenced by many other devices out there. The fact is, that the iPhone didn't "invent" all this stuff, the ideas existed out there in other platforms and across many devices (even touch surfaces and multitouch existed long before the iphone interface). They simply took all of the ideas that were good and incorporated them into a handheld device. Touch Screen with multitouch, demo'd at TED in feb 2006 (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakt...) App Store - Valve's Steam is an equivalent Ambient Light Sensor - Blackberry's have had this feature for years. See, all of these ideas were out there years before the first gen iPhone came out. Apple just managed to get put together a device that was completely different from what the norm was and guess what - it took off. Of course they're going to get copied if the device is a success. I just wish they would bite the bullet and add more features rather than saving up easily added stuff for later generations of devices, just to milk it for everything it's worth and make the iphone a mobile standard rather than an option. Essentially do what MS did to Apple with the PC, just with the mobile device and do it to the mobile companies.