Look at what happened to it since then. Not a week goes by that I don’t hear about some amazing or incredible new app or accessory that makes the iPhone do something you never thought it could do (google “iPhone the Square” just as an example). Something *Apple* never thought it could.

Today its hard to imagine the iPhone WITHOUT all those incredible apps. For every single objection people raised to the original iPhone, someone answered it with an app — and Apple answered with an incredibly easy way to make, sell or buy apps. And thus it became, almost immediately but certainly once the App Store debuted, the most popular, the most desired, and the flat-out best smartphone in the market. Now, thanks ENTIRELY to the iPhone, “smartphone” IS a cell phone, and any non-smartphone looks like a primitive sign of poverty and cultural cluelessness. All phones everywhere are judged by the iPhone, whether it can “beat it” or if its “as good as.”

And yet, I might point out, the iPhone STILL can’t “multitask” (in the sense that iPad haters mean, which is not really very well-defined), STILL doesn’t do Flash (say halleleujah!) and STILL has areas where other smartphones outclass it.

And it keeps right on outselling them. Food for thought.