I don't think the author is a Microsoft shill at all. He is just being
a devils advocate. Not a bad article. I watched the stream of the SDK
event and the roadmap looks great.  I suggest people watch that. I feel
certain to get an iPhone when a 3G phone is released.

Why is it that any time a commentator doesn't stand arm-in-arm with Jobs
singing and dancing to the Apple National Anthem he's branded as some
kind of heretic that should be burned at the stake.

I found his comments quite tame and his feelings honest.  Like:
"bandwidth hogs as examples of software that would be a no-go."
They'll let streaming over wifi, but not over ATT, undoubtably a deal to
keep ATT from having to provide real bandwidth to iPhone users paying
premium prices for the tiny data ATT delivers over its EDGE pinholes.

Then there's this troubling piece:
"What, no iChat? The iPhone's SMS application looks like the Mac's
iChat, but it's texting, not instant messaging. Until today, I was
assuming-or at least hoping –that it would evolve into a full-
blown IM client. But today's event involved AOL showing an AIM client.
It looked pretty good, but is it a sign that Apple has no plans to roll
out real iChat for the iPhone, a move which would effectively render&#
160; AIM for the iPhone redundant?"
No free-to-use-without-paying-us-even-more-for-bandwidth-you-already-
are-paying-for apps...like IM to ANY network, not just AOHell.  Why not?  
IM doesn't eat bandwidth.  Noone on an iPhone is gonna type 50B/sec.  
Why not an app like Pidgin:
http://www.pidgin.im/
that lets you IM with your buddies, no matter what system they're on,
all from one small app, not many.  Those with Windows machines will now
note the Linux boys have ported Pidgin to Windows for your pleasure.  
Don't know if there's a Mac port coming.  I doubt it.  Pidgin on Nokia
N800 is awesome and takes very little memory or resources.  Pidgin is
free and GNU licensed.

Well, I got so excited over it I ordered two new 16GB SDHC cards for the
N800, doubling its memory capacity to about 30GB in reality.  There's a
really great deal on Newegg the boys on the tablet forum say work great:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211245
16GB for $59!  Simply amazing how depressed memory prices are
considering gold has just backed off $989/oz on its way towards
$US1000/oz.  Money is worthless and memory is still going cheaper.  
Panasonic has the 32GB SDHC Class 6 out, but, of course, that's for the
very rich until the 64GB SDHC Class 6 comes out later.  I'll wait...(c;

What's to keep Stevie's App Store from merely RENTING you iPhone apps by
the day/week/month, rather than letting you keep it for a one-time
ripoff?  If I had 'em by the balls, I would....They don't seem to mind
all charged up on iPhone hormones.  It would be SO simple for App Store
to DELETE what it has downloaded into it after X microseconds when you
get tired of paying for the game's monthly sellphone fee.....
You pay until then shut it off....just like MobiTV on your sellphone,
for instance.  Lots of Sellphone apps already are RENTED.  It would be
nothing new or radical....