Firstly because of screen size restrictions, even on PDA phones with large screens web browsers are of limited use. Secondly many websites simply become useless when accessed from mobile browsers because they use features these browsers don't support. Admittedly this would be less of a problem if providers of material and services that appeal to the mobile browsing public such as ticket-resellers, news papers, TV stations, various information directories, companies that offer online street-map services, etc... were more aggressive at creating versions of their sites and services optimized for mobile customers. Hell, even the public transport company where I live doesn't offer a website where I can access bus and subway schedules in a format easily readable and searchable from a Mobile browser. You haven't seen what Nokia's port of WebKit to the Symbian OS can do - the browser on their Series 60 3rd edition phones is freaking awesome. It renders almost anything you can throw at it except for Flash-heavy pages.
The iPhone will be fully integrated into OS X and up to and including the ability to update the firmware which is something no other GSM phone to my knowledge can offer at the moment. Again, welcome to 2003. Nokia's Series 60 phones have had upgradeable firmware for at least that long. To be honest, the cretins that pass for carriers in the US are responsible for this sort of ignorance. Explore Nokia's N-series and E-series phones to get some idea of the kind of features Apple will be rolling out in the iPhone over the next few years (if at all).
There's a very similar story in Charlie Chaplin's autobiography. It definitely involved shoe shine boys, but I also seem to remember Irving Berlin (?) was mentioned as someone who lost a lot of money.
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There's a very similar story in Charlie Chaplin's autobiography. It definitely involved shoe shine boys, but I also seem to remember Irving Berlin (?) was mentioned as someone who lost a lot of money.