A phoneless phone »
Over at Counternotions (well worth visiting, btw) in a discussion on how some industry analysts who criticise the iPhone for it’s (meagre) features are failing to understand that the power and awesomeness of the iPhone is about software, Jared Updike comments:
The iPhone/App Store platform/iTunes dynasty is so powerful and established that Apple can sell a smartphone so smart that is not in fact a phone at all: the iPod touch. Name a competitor with a platform/store that will ever match that feat: selling a phoneless phone? The touch is so good it can sell with no carrier whatsoever.
It’s a phoneless smartphone! I tell people that my iTouch is an iPhone without the crappy phone part, so I’m quite pleased with Jared’s insight.
