Like Palm, Apple sat on its laurels and slowly added necessary features, pushing its own products more than Don King. Now they are fumbling, stumbling and bumbling trying to get simple things like IM to work in the background. It’s of critical importance because people love Blackberry Messenger and the like because US phone companies are gouging customers with ultra high SMS text messaging costs – the price has doubled while data transfer has gotten much cheaper.

Good luck, Mr. Jobs. Your days of exploiting your proprietary using customer base are soon coming to a close with the iPhone. You’ve given the competition time to catch up and they are now surpassing you while you try to undo what you’ve done… will be interesting to see what happens.