Re: I can't play some video files on my iPhone

I can't say. I just think that there's a much higher bar that iPhone designers and users have than some of the other things out there. Maybe that is it, I don't know.

Our sales director, Tim Matteson, had a Blackberry for years and loved it. But recently he switched to an iPhone and he's been like a kid in a candy store. He and I spoke on the phone the other day and he just went on and on regarding how much slicker and much more polished everything is on his iPhone. (He is a longtime PC user, not a Mac guy.) He used words like "seamless" and "has an ease of use" that he didn't find on any of his Blackberries.

Maybe Steve Jobs & Company want a certain level of "finesse" in the system that has to rise to a level that matches everything else it has already. All I know is that I have logged in to our MOBI interface on an iPhone and it looks nice. When I log in using a Blackberry or a Palm, etc., it looks very disheveled and crude. Oh the parts are there but that's about all you can say about it. (It wasn't written for an iPhone, it was written to the published 3G standards for all the systems, and each has a bit of tweak to the code that recognizes the logging-in device and feeds the code appropriately.) The iPhone is just a whole lot slicker than the others.

Steve is a maniac on finesse. Maybe that's the bar. I don't know.

All I know is that many people are completely unaware that many parts of the iPhone interface and software was co-developed with Adobe and yet Flash doesn't run on it. Go figure.

But as Tim Matteson told me in his call: You know, I don't care that Flash doesn't run on this, everything else is so much better and so slick and seamless that I'd still buy it.

I agree with Tim.

Ron Lindeboom