Fortune.com writer Philip Elmer-DeWitt makes a good case that this scenario is NOT the future, at least not the immediate future.

Let’s back up. What is the table that Elmer-DeWitt is setting? The iPhone:Android=Mac:Windows similie is this: Google’s free, open-source Android phone platform will inevitably crush Apple’s brilliant iPhone platform like Windows crushed Mac in the 1990s, despite the Mac’s far superior interface/experience*.

So will it? Elmer-DeWitt says no, that there are two problems: carrier adoption of the massive changes needed to support Android, and the relatively small Android 3rd-party development community vs. Apple’s large, well-coordinated developer community. Continue reading »

Now that Apple and AT&T have squeaked out of the [iPhone Gen. 1 revenue sharing] deal, what’s holding the two companies together? Certainly some would say that it’s that oft-mentioned exclusivity agreement the companies signed, but I don’t know of one person who actually read the thing and no one really knows if Apple can get out or not.But if I had to take a guess, step one in getting out of its contract with AT&T revolved around the revenue sharing deal. And before you know it, Steve Jobs’ latest blockbuster may be on other carriers.

It may be hard to believe right now, but rest assured that the chances of AT&T and Apple no longer working with each other are greater than you might think. Cnet

This would be a 200-mph blast of fresh air into the iPhone Equation, especially after widespread news that the iPhone Gen. 2 will be locked to AT&T’s network. Having a choice of 2, 3 or more carriers to marry your iPhone to would bring down prices and offer new services. It would be mobile device nirvana.

Works over the air. Changes are displayed immediately. Works with Mail, iCal, and Address Book on Mac. Works with Outlook on Windows.

- courtesy http://www.macrumorslive.com/ from the WWDC 2008 keynote address. My bolds.

So that’s why Apple didn’t give us Contacts/Calendar sync over Bluetooth. They want to charge for it with MobileMe.

Background

Unless you’ve been living in Vega, Texas, you’ve probably heard the iPhone does not have a replaceable battery, meaning you can’t bring a second (or third etc.) to pop in that iPhone when you run out of juice, like you can with a notebook computer.

I just got back from a 3-day camping-at-night roadtrip, and I had my iPhone on me. Here’s what I learned about power management.

iPhone Travel Tips

So what can you do on the road? Here’s some quick tips:

1. bring a car charger Pretty simple stuff. We had a Belkin iPod charger that worked fine for my iPhone. It’s just slow to charge the iPhone.
2. bring your wall charger and grab AC power whenever you can The iPhone recharges much faster from AC wall power than it does from a car charger. As few as 15 mintes can give you a 1/4 to 1/3 charge. We’d stop at restaurants and I’d find an AC outlet and pop the phone in it.
3. turn off WiFi while driving You won’t need it, and it sucks juice.
4. dim the display I had mine on auto-dim, and realized I could really conserve battery by turning this off and moving the slider as far left as I could stand.

Next time I’ll come equipped with a solar charger, an external USB phone charger, or both. Fighting for  car charger time (vs. another iPhone owner and an ancient MP3 player) was no fun.

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via Ars Technica