There are two things stopping the iPhone from having an impact comparable to the original Macintosh: (1) The closed nature of the App Store and (2) being tied t

There are two things stopping the iPhone from having an impact comparable to the original Macintosh: (1) The closed nature of the App Store and (2) being tied to a single carrier. Remove those two restrictions, and the iPhone becomes a new geek toy, which will translate into apps which are much better than what we have on the AppStore right now. The barrier to entry into the AppStore is simply too high, which is keeping most developers from taking on more ambitious projects.