The big day is almost here...

Well everyone... the news is about to drop from Apple. iPhone OS 3.0 and all its glory will soon be unveiled to the tons of kool-aid drinkers out there such as myself. I'm not going to sit here and post my speculation on what this new OS is going to add, or even mean for the future of the iphone; there are plenty of other blogs for that. I do, however, want to take a step back and see how far we have come; because let's face it... you can never tell where you are going unless you know where you have been.

When iPhone first hit the scene, it was not the piece of mechanical glory it is today. It's purpose was to be a compliment to the Macintosh computer, their flagship enterprize. The iphone was basic. Yes it was revolutionary, but it was not meant initially to be the takeover it has become. This is evident from the applications given to us in the first iPhone OS. Basic apps that resembled their dashboard counterparts. "Your Mac on the go". It wasn't going to run anything advanced, that was what your Mac was for. The iPhone again was to be a compliment... just a baby step forward from the iPod. When you get right down to it, I sympathize with that idea. I understand what Apple was trying to do, and it was not be the cell phone giant it has become. It wanted simplicity, and the opportunity to take your Macintosh experience with you on the go.

What the hell happened!? Next it was web-apps, then the jailbreak, then native apps, now who knows....copy and paste? MMS? Where does it all end? Personally I hope it doesn't. People have taken the "Mac in your pocket" idea and taken it quite literally. I believe the iPhone will continue to evolve until there is almost no difference between what a laptop can do, and what the iPhone can do on the go.

I for one am extremely happy and satisfied with my purchase and can say with much certainty that I will never buy another model of phone again.

One last note: How many of you think that the mac should be able to run some of the iPhone apps in dashboard? A sort of backwards compatible idea that perhaps ties into what Apple wanted in the first place?