Your argument is compelling and I agree mostly. However, my thinking is that it would be even more beneficial for Apple to do nothing. Do nothing to help the Pre, do nothing to hurt it.

Then, using the Pre with iTunes will be a continual "almost as good as an iPhone" experience. To my mind, that is a continual subliminal advertisement for an iPhone. Whenever a problem is encountered, the user will assume or worry that it is because s/he has a Pre and not an iPhone. The user will get to look longingly at all the stuff (apps, movies...) in iTunes s/he's missing because s/he has a Pre and not an iPhone. When it comes time to get a new phone s/he'll just go ahead and get a iPhone.

English really needs a gender-neutral indefinite third person pronoun.

So Riza was involved in Free Iraq Foundation.

Wolfowitz was involved with Riza at least as early as 2003.

Do not tell me that the US invaded Iraq and 3000 Americans have died so that Wolfowitz could impress his girlfriend.

I teach programming, AP Computer Science. Like David I am so sad that the day when programming was the coolest thing you could do on a computer, is long gone. Like David, I wish accessible programming environments were more popular. But I disagree that a lack of accessible programming environments has caused it.

Squeak (squeakland.org) is just one example and is everything a programming teacher could ask for. It is a language which, even though it's over 30 years old prepares kids well for modern programming (unlike BASIC). It is proven to be more accessible to new learners and children than BASIC. It gives young programmers the ability to incorporate all kind of modern multimedia into their programming. In my fantasies, all elementary and middle school kids would be raised on it before they got to me in high school.

So why aren't? Because now the competition for kids' attention is fierce and there are lots of cool things to do on computers without having to figure out why this algorythm didn't get the data it needed.

I don't have a solution. I guess from now on people will learn to program only when they are paid to.