IPhone to all People

Read about Steve Job's keynote at MacWorld 2007 today. Makes a lot of sense to have all that functionality in one place. Its an all touch device that combines a phone, internet access and Ipod music access. The engadget transcript link above shows the presentation very nicely. Its still not a complete computational device, and although my Blackberry does include internet access, its very incomplete in that regard. It does the basic searches OK, but hardly allows for me to deal with a complex web application. The Apple device also brings to mind the swiss-army-knife argument. Will a device that tries to include many functions do them all as well as specialist devices? I recall juggling a phone and PDA for a while, and eventually went for a less than ideal phone with the Blackberry. Earlier experiences with PDAs also showed that if you did any amount of text entry, a non-keyboard device was not going to work, though I had seen some impressive texting performances. Maybe primarily for non business applications. Based on the presentation, the way it does graphics is very impressive. The Apple device is not for sale yet, and they are linking with Cingular for the internet and phone services. Perhaps whether the IPhone is successful will, as most such devices do, depend on its ultimate execution. Pete Blackshaw looks at the related buzz.