I guess the article is yearning for another revolutionary device or quantum leap. What will the post-iphone revolution be? Which features will make it stand out of the crowd?

Sorry to rain on the N9/N900 parade, but these are not revolutionary phones, they are geek phones, that only <1% of the masses care about. They do provide a fresh new experience, but fall into the iphonish feel subset. And masses care about how smart and smooth the phone is. By smart, I dont mean a phone that you can mod, that is NOT smart. Smart is the phone that anticipates what you need and provides it to you without having to write scripts, and waste hours on the X-terminal. This is what smart is to >99% of people.

So what will be the next revolution? Given the money situation, and creativity of Apple, I suspect that Apple will be there first.