Very enticing. I basically have nothing better to do with my time and ideas oozing out of my sad little brain 24/7. Who knows, maybe my dream of a castle in Switzerland, a Ferrari, and two hot French babes is still within my grasp.

On a more serious note.
The only way to reduce market-ready application rejections to zero would be for Apple to allow developers to submit a detailed spec of the intended application for approval before any development took place. This would only work if the approval eliminated any possibility of subsequent rejection. In which case, it would solve the whole problem. Apple's need for secrecy and reasonable control, and the developers need for a guarantee before wasting time and money could both be satisfied using this method.

Even if this one is poorly done, the idea itself seems very cool to me.

Wow, this thing is hideous. How could any rational human being use the word sexy in the same breath as this device. It's at best lipstick on a pig. Does Blackberry have a corporate death wish. One Infinite Loop is playing patty cakes if they haven't noticed. They're in it for the big prize--dominance. As for the iPhone, five friends at work have it and can't believe they ever lived without it, and these aren't Apple die hards. I finally have one, now I wish I'd waited for 2.0, and I can't believe how amazing it is. The phone is just amazing--period. Apple haters like to say otherwise but it's a bit like saying, 'hey there's unicorn in my front yard.' The virtual keyboard awesome as well, I actually thought it was going to be a problem originally but it was just a perception. Blackberry has to innovoate better than this or Apple will have there market jugular before too long. They're probably stuck in the same gridlock Microsoft is; they have a bunch of brilliant engineers like Apple or any other company, but the executive branch of the company won't untie the ropes that hold them back from creating some really cool toys. Those are my useless thoughts.

iPod is a music/video/ebook device, not a PDA. The temptation for people is to criticize a device for being what it's not instead of praising what it is. The more I use multi-touch on my iPhone, the more I'm amazed.. It's simply brilliant! iPod Touch is the same. My only wish is that Apple would have dispensed with the Classic line and instead created both a high end and low end storage iPod Touch. Anyway, with wireless internet capability, the full blown Safari browser, and ease and flexibility of navigating, and igoogle online apps, the device affectively becomes a wireless PDA by extension anyway. Apps and data storage don't need to be local anymore.

Precious few people get excited about Microsoft's OS. As a whole, they're a completely uninteresting and non-sexy company (with perhaps the exception of Xbox), but they have the PC market and likely always will so transitional pains from platform to platform are normal in the life cycle. People will change, they'll hate it for a while (especially IT guys and gals), then they'll adjust to it after some patches and time, then Vista will become status quo again and so the circle of Microsoft's OS life will begin anew and they'll make another gazillion dollars while they work on there next uninteresting OS.

just what the world needs, a zune 2 ... it's laughable

An iPod touch would be nice but any gizmo works. Thanks!