Maybe my $100k target was too low to illustrate my point. I have yet to see a valuable killer iPhone app that Apple didn't write. Mail, Maps, and Safari could

Maybe my $100k target was too low to illustrate my point. I have yet to see a valuable killer iPhone app that Apple didn't write. Mail, Maps, and Safari could each on their own convince me to buy an iPhone. Trism? Some Polaroid sim? These are useless entertainment. Where are the VisiCalc's of this space? Apps where people stare dumbfounded at the screen and want to trample their neighbors to spend $200 on software. What really bothers me about the "gold rush" stories is that they just aren't big enough. Some kid makes a game that nets $250k - basically enough to hire a couple people to help you make your next game before you go out of business. And to top it off, these are only the cream of the crop - most iPhone devs never recoup their investments. We aren't seeing real value being created here, just a few people capturing the spare change of the masses. The modern smart phone is as close as we've gotten to a flying car... lets see something awesome already. I grew up thinking that software developers were like astronauts, not crop dusters.