(Quote-nesting added for context, since this thread has been spinning madly...)

Let's see, we had this since day one via SIP and Google Talk, and with PR1.2 we got Skype as well.

Oh, a couple weeks later, Apple finally introduces FaceTime (but only on the brand-new hardware, not available as an update) -- and they even restrict it to WiFi. Maybe, someday, they'll be so generous as to let you decide whether to burn your monthly 3G cap or not; I guess that'll be one of those "new features every few months"? Maybe they'll make it interoperable with another device (iChat support?), and that'll be another?


No Flash 10; of course, the iPhone's neither gotten Flash nor (barring SJ donning a helm of opposite alignment) will it ever get it, so...


Fennec has had <video> support for a while; not sure whether the N900 build of Chromium (or any other webkit browser, at that) does or not...

Has the iPhone even gotten proper <video> support (i.e. something other than "forcibly open all videos in their own full-screen windows") yet, or is that still one of the new features Apple may add every few months?

I'll give Apple the benefit of the doubt (after all, it has been a while since I heard about the lack of proper <video> support) and assume they not only do have it, but in fact got it before it showed up in Fennec. That puts the iPhone ahead on one out of your three points -- explain again why waiting for these features "every few months" is better than already having them, and getting only bugfixes in future updates?