my $0.02

My coworker dug up this article on a haptic feedback glove. My immediate thought was, "Yup, now they just need to package one with every iPhone.

Seriously, the only thing keeping the iPhone from joining the New Coke on the trash pile of worst ideas ever is the blind fanaticism of Mac followers. All the known usability problems of a touchscreen? Check. Affordance of physical buttons? Not there. Extensibility? Virtually nil, unless you count the ability to use web applications - which other phones have had for ages. Yet again, Apple collected some good ideas from the marketplace, slapped a pretty interface on some shoddy hardware - and the consumers are eating it up. Uhhhh.