This is where the confusion lies - there's a revolution and then there's popularity. The iPhone is a popular product, but it's by no means revolutionary.
O.M.G. Seriously, this is beyond silly now! You're like one of those
tech people who go around challenging the statistics of things despite the contrary opinion of the entire world.
"The iPhone's screen is too small to efficiently read e-books on", whilst several million people are happily reading e-books on their iPhones.
"The iPhone's lack off Flash will dramatically reduce web usage", whilst practically everyone in possession of an iPhone is surfing the web at several hundred times the rate prior to owning the device.
"Incurring a fee for the developer license will turn too many developers away for the App Store to be a success", whilst developers flock to the iPhone at a rate higher than any existing platform in history.
The iPhone/Pad/Pod may well be a cell phone, an internet communications device and an iPod - if that's three things in one that make a product revolutionary then you'd better brace yourself for what my Intel Mac can do!
It's a jukebox, a games console, a word processor, it's the Swiss army knife of computer communications, I can make calls, it has a keyboard that has this neat technology called 'buttons', it's a personal cinema, a clock, a calculator, an accountant, a paperweight... and I can develop and release as much software as I want for it without having to hand over any more cash other than what I paid for it. Isn't that neat?
And yet your laptop neither resides in the pockets of over 50 million people, is the topic of the century or won awards for being the "Innovation of the Year", "Most Stylish Technology of the Year", "Best Mobile Phone of the Year" or "Gadget of the Year".
You're missing a blindingly obvious revolution Air. I'm finished with this discussion.
