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iPhone vs. Netbook: Which Will Be the Biggest Gaming Machine?

Penguin, you seem to be saying that if a company takes existing technology and makes it tremendously more usable and useful for consumers that that doesn't count as innovation, only as "marketing". I disagree. It doesn't matter to me whether my Palm Treo had the same *potential* capabilities on paper as the iPhone (it doesn't, but just for the sake of argument). The point is I didn't or couldn't use them. The iPhone doesn't just "polish pre-existing technology": it actually makes it usable.

That's not marketing: that is technological genius and innovation.

As to marketing, have you ever watched someone demo their iPhone to someone else? The iPhone sells itself.