I was also a very late adopter of the MP3 phenom…mostly because I couldn’t stand the idea of NOT having RECORD capability on a music device.

The iPhone can be used with a bluetooth keyboard. Of course, you have to jail-break it to accept the software….Now we have the Droid and other metaPhones (More capable than ‘smart’ phones or PDAs by themselves), running Android…an Open Source OS.

This is a prime example of people thinking outside the box…given the limitations of the slick, but non-creative, play only capabilities of the iPhone, two paths appeared: The tech-savy went after the creation of a new Operating System (Android) for these devices, which could be further modified on an ad-hoc basis by other, software-tech-savy owners; and the pirates, who developed a hack which ‘broke’ the Apple lock on ‘only Apple approved’ software on these things.

The most successful aspect of the iPhone is, in fact, the App store….and by Jail Breaking your device, you suddenly have access to tons more applications, and allow, for example you to create your OWN MSWord docs and Excel Spreadsheets….at a strictly business level.