1. Looks like Apple begun its dance with numbers. "2% of smartphone market". Heh. Target in SJ iPhone keynote was 1% of global market of *all* phones in 2008 - 10mln of sold iPhones. Now look - as of January, after 6 months Apple sold 4mln. It makes expected 8mln without taking into consideration stagnating demand natural in all tech toys. You should add that approximately 25% of that is jailbreaked and don't enter phone market. That means only 6mln *phones* sold, the rest are PDAs. 60% of target. Oops.

2. If you read article without bias you would read also that main reason of internet usage among users was smart packaging and (my guess) relative cheapness of data plan comparing to price of iPhone. Also Apple forced AT&T and other carriers to abandon their own "portals". Don't know how it looks in USA but in Poland users are forced to use telecom portals with categories and all links prepared for users as start pages of Internet. Users *don't need* to use Google to find their content. Even searching is done through that portals so no hits for Google.

My acquitances are buying smartphones for: GPS, PIM, digital camera and video, MMS, Internet is on very distant place. Oh, and big screen is great for viewing photos.

3. There will be repository for iPhones. It will have just different name. And lack of dependencies isn't particularly good. Lack of dependencies means static libraries. Static libraries mean bigger hard disk and RAM usage. I suppose this is behind ridiculous Apple constraints on apps, not some fancy HIG.

This is the only point where I can partially agree with you. Nokia/Maemo desperately needs Maemo Linux distribution with proper hardware infrastructure and manpower behind it.