The land of the iPhone

I just got this link to PocketTweets from Steve Rubel on Twitter. PocketTweets is a web interface for Twitter that fits the iPhone screen.





















It got me thinking:

1. The lack of a Dev Kit doesn't seem to be a big deal in the Web 2.0 age
   
2. other than all the bells and whistles, the iPhone is the first interface to really bridge the gap between PCs and mobile phone. Paired with an always on internet connection it opens for the first time ever the real Internet experience on the go. Here are some very interesting possibilities (most already available after DAYS from the launch):

• An always updated to do list
• An iPhone Social Network? That's the holy grail. Millions of people always connected, out and about and ready for some real world social experience (real world??? oh-my-god)
• News Feeds on the go
• Searching more stuff than you'll ever need, when you (won't) need it
• etc
• more etc
• almost any other etc you may think of

I don't have an iPhone yet (not my fault, no iPhone yet in Europe), but I considered the way I do the above stuff right now. I do all that with my Mac, and I think most of you do, too.
That's why I guess that, when I get my hands on an iPhone, my computer time will be dropping much more than my mobile phone time (iPhone owners, seeking your thoughts on this).
Heck, I'm not even sure I'll drop my mobile when I get the iPhone: I'll be too concerned about no-scratching-no-damaging-no-crashing-etc to use it the hard-nosed way as I use to with my mobile.

Now, if you don't believe that 499 $ is not an issue when you're selling a mobile phone, I can tell you that 499 $ is even less important when you're selling a pocket-sized (though full featured) computer. Apple just re-invented the tablet PC, making it the way it was supposed to be from the start.

This is no mobile phone + iPod: this is the second coming of the Newton ;-)

I guess that instead of speculating about the market share Apple will get on the cell phone market, we really should track the iPhone on its own (or maybe on the PC market).

At the end of the day, if the web is about multiple-way communication, it's not the land of laptops (too much of a productivity item) and not of mobile phones (too much about chatting one to one).

The web is the land of the iPhone.

UPDATE: Hugh agrees on Twitter
UPDATE 2: on a similar pov, Steve Rubel explains how to Turn Your iPhone into a Mobile Nerve Center