Wow. Most of this discussion is irrelevant to Apple's point. IntelProp is its own discussion -- lawsuits, blah, blah, blah. The real point here is that every single one of us who has a cell phone with Verizon, Cigular, whatever -- we ALL have to deal with the "sequential voicemail only" situation. Apple's point is "that sucks" and "it must change". Apple wants to do what Cingular, Verizon, TMobile, Lucent, etc., etc. have YET TO DO -- free the common cell phone user from an extremely crappy voicemail interface and system. They are going to kickstart this change with their phone and Cingular is going to help them do it. The rest of the companies (Verizon, etc.) will soon follow suit, surely. And ALL of us will benefit. And we'll have Apple, Inc. to thank for pushing the whole change along.