I walked into my local AT&T Wireless store on Saturday fully expecting
and prepared to get a Blackberry 8820. My Blackberry 8800 died while I
was in London last week, and both Visa and American Express tried to
protect me from fraud by disallowing my attempts to order a new phone
over the web. Hence, my face-to-face visit with AT&T.

Unfortunately for Research in Motion, maker of the Blackberry, the in-
store price for the 8820 was the same as the iPhone. I deliberated for
all of three seconds and walked out with the iPhone.

The iPhone is an amazing device. It was inevitable that I'd find my
way to it, just as it's inevitable that it will continue to take more
and more market share, eventually breeding lower-end devices that will
change the way we use mobile "phones."

The iPhone is designed too well to be anything less than inevitable.

CNet
The inevitability of the iPhone
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9901543-16.html