seriously ?

Will the iPhone Become the First True Mobile Internet Device?

So I am confused as to what your point is:
"but for now, I don't see the cost-benefits in writing native iPhone apps or porting existing enterprise apps to iPhone. Maybe never."

&

"The iPhone can become the MID for business, and start to replace the PC outright for a significant portion of workers. "

I thiiinnnkkk I agree with your general point...

and in answer to your headline question:
"Will the iPhone Become the First True Mobile Internet Device?"

I say, 99% sure... YES.

and it's not really that I know what a "true mobile internet device" is really, but I know that the iPhone is already much more capable than any other smartphone and will only continue to accelerate it's lead with the SDK/iFund etc.
My point is: I simply expect the tech on this thing to grow so fast we shouldn't expect to be able to imagine what we will see even 0.5 -1 year out.

IMHO Jobs is doing just about everything right with the iPhone, the only major whole I can find is lack of Flash...

( I vaguely understand it's a processor/power issue at heart, but jesus...Steve.... no Flash!?!?... ).
OF course this can worked around in most cases...( see: google and youtube ) but why give the developers this headache when so many internet ( ergo mobile ) apps/games/etc have already been built with flash... ( check out finance.google.com and play with their charts w/ news flags for an example of a how mindboggling fast a flash app can be whilst delivering a nearly inconcievable amount of information... think about it... you can freely pinch and squeeze the time scale of these charts...and hey free google NEWS integration ( information overload...just think about all the info you are gettting and how fast it is... ) ) ....

Ok... I am nesting parenthesis...time to lay off the ritalin / venti macchiatos...

sorry for the blabbering... but this is a blag-o-bloob on the intertubes afterall...

o and besides the flash the only thing I "worry" about with the iPhone... how will Android compete with this ? I mean we know schmidt is on both boards ( obviously more vested interest in AAPL > GOOG ) but, have they agreed to "stay of each other's lawns ? " I cannot completely imagine how this deal might work, GOOG has the servers and software... and AAPL has the hardware/software ...

I can't help but think that ANDROID could easily begin eating into the iphone market share ( im thinking 2 years outish.. in an iphone dominated world ) with very cheap and rich hardware. I don't doubt that the iPhone will be able to continue to lead in "richness/features/etc... , but I simply can't imagine a very cheap open-source "android" based phone that woulnd't seem more attractive to someone who can shell out $500/$400 for a phone.

.... now I am thinking that they are both ultimately UNIX devices so it may not really matter in the end...idk... unfortunately for all but the VERY MOST savvy of us; GOOG & AAPL know ALOT more than we do..

disclosure...I am long a bum's amount of AAPL and GOOG and in general more biased from being a "fan" in both of their favors than a being a "shareholder" ( though... I need to use all this dopamine to geek out on currencies because I'm sure 1 share of GOOG = .75 euros by now and I recently sold off alot of $$$ to travel... time to buy the EURO ? .... or is at a topish ...idk ....idk..... )