You'd be equally delusional if you don't see the trend started 4 years ago for this type of consumer to become the majority and how this type of consumer has a level of expectation that some ecosystem (their term, not mine) has to be in place.

Remember when the original iPhone came out and there was no iTunes Music Store for it? Then a couple of years later, they were celebrating their one-billionth download?

All of a sudden, download counts became important. Even TMO has participated in that. As has Ovi, and the other app stores.

So with the convergence of your phone being your music player, how you consume news, the Internet, videos and the more powerful they become, you'd be quite delusional to not see a trend where if you deliver some gadget without the ability to connect to something that gives the consumer that kind of content, you're missing out on sales opportunities like no other.

Will it continue? Who knows? But to deliver a phone in 2011 without a content infrastructure in place is just like delivering a phone in 2007 without Copy/Paste or MMS and no iTunes (iOS). Or 2009 without MMS and no real Ovi support (Maemo 5). Or 2010 without Copy/Paste (WP7) and no international Zune support.

It's all stupid. Savvy folks want a device they can put whatever on and can control. By the numbers, we're a minority now. The rest of the folks want something that plugs into their computer, grabs/syncs their crap, they walk away happy hitting only one button.

Put it to you this way. N900 sold less than the crappiest variant of the Galaxy S series.