So i’m responding to this:

iPhone 3g, and why it still sucks.

This can be responded in a dozen sentences:

1. There are 4 contract options excluding PAYG using O2 in the UK.
2. You don’t have to use AAC. The iPhone’s audio support is stated as such:
   

   AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

3. How many normal phones have easily accessible SDKs?
4. How long does your bluetooth headset battery last? Doesn’t having bluetooth on, constantly, increase battery depletion? I looked at a few headsets and they had battery lives of 8-9 hours.
5. How many platforms are supported for the Windows Mobile SDK?
6. Invention can be defined as “a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation”. This does not necessarily mean that everything in it has to be new. Sometimes the collection of things to be used in a new way is an invention. For example, laser cutting.
7. TomTom have announced an application for the iPhone 3G. GPS might not be a “gimmick” for you.
8. Apple do allow other peripherals. For example mice, keyboards, speakers, monitors, printers, external storage devices and external optical devices.
9. Apple have picked service providers in each country. They have offered unique features with the respective service providers. For example, Visual Voicemail.
10. Objective’s definition is “not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts”. For example, “I hate iTunes”, “I feel rather than” and “I hate cables” are not objective.
11. The design is new. So at least one thing for the iPhone is new.
12. Apple allow software to be installed on the Mac. So they’re not exactly controlling everything about that device.