[Tim Wilson] "The plan is the plan until the plan changes. Unless they're outright, uhm, prevaricating, and would just as soon not let you know what the plan actually is."
I feel the same way, and you can simply add a big "for now" at the end, but there's no way they could go all iOS today.
No one could contribute to the AppStore.
And we also have to remember, the Internet was slow and expensive in 2003.
And don't forget what an iPod looked like in 2003:
http://www.apple.com/pr/products/ipodhistory/
Jeremy