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Excellent piece from Dennis Haarsager, well worth excerpting:
No doubt about it, Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch continue that company’s record of high class industrial design.  But if Steve Jobs’s taste and focus make for great-looking consumer products, his tightly-integrated hardware/DRM/software business model is more a throwback to the great (and sometimes unfairly labeled) “robber baron” [...]

I waited until 7pm before driving to the Apple Store last night. It was busy - customers, mainly gawking and Apple Store employees at the door, greeting passersby and offering the opportunity to try the iPhone.
I poked and prodded one of the units, but in some ways, the first moments of touching it were almost [...]

Dave Winer tosses around the idea of a podcast player - one that not only gets podcasts, but creates and uploads them. His list of requirements:
1. Self-contained, untethered synchronization, much the same way a Blackberry gets email. 
2. Read-write, two-way, should be able to record and connect with a publishing system for automatic upload and feed [...]