i think many third party app suppliers will hedge their bets, and supply apps on different platforms.

especially if one can start using the same tools to develop for multiple platforms (see Qt and similar).

the iphone is a very closed ecosystem in that regard, objective-c, dev tools that only run on mac, and possibly more.

as for grabbing the attention of bloggers and journalists? i suspect at least the latter have always had a hotline to apple, simply by apple being a near "must have" in any kind of media office. the former, not so sure, but blogging still seems to be a very US phenomena.

yep, there i said it, i cant shake the suspicion that this is yet another case of "USA beer-goggles".

while i cant show that this is a trend overall, one norwegian mobile news page still showed symbian being the lead mobile os used to visit their pages, even tho they have been hammering the iphone news hard, and one can get iphone on multiple carriers.

btw, have people checked out http://gs.statcounter.com/?

kinda fun watching the graphs, as while there was a point back around the start of the year where iphone had more surfing activity worldwide then opera, now opera is on top again, and nokia is heading to overtake iphone.

whats even more interesting is that only north america and europe shows iphone on top, while the rest shows opera or nokia, with oceania being the oddball with blackberry...

all in all, i think one may have to assume the long view here. the iphone may have gotten some fresh blod into the phone market, and is currently the bell of the ball, but i do wonder about the long run as right now its a issue of "any color as long as its black"...