How about a dam iPhone in Canada?

This is how i see it. To all of us, or at least most of us and esp. the ones who got the $100.00 store credit, it seems as if they put a bunch of features on there that were great and seemed to be well thought. Maybe back at Apple's headquarters they did not think we needed the ability to connect phones by blue tooth or even listen to music through that feature. You could go on and on here and fill in your favorite missing feature but Ill spare everyone, as I do not want to sound like I'm complaining. It just seems to me that they but the bare necessities to on it to be called a smart phone and then stripped that feature down for some reason. Now in this second generation iPhone, it will have everything ours should have had. Maybe they should have waited a few months to get it right so everyone would feel better at the end of the day. Its not like anyone was going to release some kind of phone that you actually had to "touch" to operate. That's crazy. It took apple to do it. Now every other cell phone provider has something similar calling it their "iPhone."

Its not like anyone was going to release some kind of phone that you actually had to "touch" to operate.

Of course you have to touch it. It doesn't have voice dialing!

As for the missing 'features' (put in quotes because I'm sure most people think the iPhone is the greatest thing not kludged up with stupidity like search or copy/paste), bear in mind that Apple struggled to get the phone out in June as it was (they had to pull all those Leopard developers just to get it done).

Of course, Steve keeps talking about how the iPhone is first and foremost a phone, which is why we can't just install any apps on it, we need pre-approved apps from the Appstore. Yet the phone 'features' are pretty weak compared to the market, and they seem to spend an inordinate amount of time on the non-phone features (advertising, the SDK).

iPhone in Canada? Probably won't happen until that Canadian company drops its lawsuit about the name.

So don't blame Apple for that. Blame some selfish Canadian company that thinks it can make a quick buck out of Apple for trademark infringement on something that probably didn't sell that many units anyway.

is just wait a few months and make it right. Both leopard and the iphone had their shortcoming in my opinion because they were all hyped up and all they did was fall short of expectations. As a mac/apple guy I love getting a laugh out of those commercials or occasionally laughing at frustrated windows users bc their stuff doesn't work, but leopard wasn't all that great in the beginning either. Same with the iPhone. Sometimes the truth hurts just a little when you actually hear it. When you used to be the one laughing at people because their systems did not work or their phone could not do this or that, now its you because you decided to trust apple on its "latest,greatest,best,and fastest ever" os and phone. Again, all im saying, why not wait a few months and get it all right? Oh..yeah. I almost forgot. Macworld.

No, if you think the iPhone should be weighed down with a million useless features and all the consequent complicated menus, you're mad.

Half the point of the iPhone is that it's easy to use. And half the features that people complain are missing (e.g. speed dialling) don't make sense on a touch screen phone anyway.

Sure, there are some things that could usefully be added. But there are also plenty of features iPhone has that other mobiles don't have.

FWIW I don't think iPhone fell short of expectations, unless your expectations were unreasonable anyway.