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In all seriousness, yesterday was the beginning of the 21st century.
The entire industry devoted to those crummy mini-browsers in current cellphones? Gone. Erased.
Who wants to develop customized content for that platform now? Who wants to use standards designed for matchbook displays and tincan/wire technology?
Indeed, the entire Windows CE / Palm / Blackberry / Symbian ecosystem will wither under the onslaught of demand for future OS X embedded devices.
This is only the beginning. Cingular has the exclusive for the initial iPhone, but which carrier will snag the iPhone Nano?
Imagine an iPhone that is NOT an internet device or e-mail platform. Imagine an iPhone that is just an iPod and cellular phone.
Indeed, imagine the next iPod that is NOT a phone! Imagine the next Mac Book!
The weight and momentum of what was left unsaid yesterday has the kinetic energy of a bullet.
The iPhone we saw yesterday is the Mac Pro quad Xeon processor of cellphones. I am looking forward to the Mac Mini version.
There will be endless variations of consumer gadgets using the rock solid OS X platform. Guess what the hot devlopment environment / platform of the 21st century is going to be? Hint: It's NOT brown.
Make no mistake, Apple has vaulted far ahead of Microsoft and the others with their implementation of 'embedded' OS X.
Microsoft will try to shoehorn a bloated Vista into the new market for super intelligent devices that was created singlehandedly yesterday by Apple.
Vista Media Server for the home? More like Zune on steroids - and everyone knows that steroids make you swollen and stupid.
Apple has become the next Google. Pundits and skeptics will look askance, but the smart money will ride OS X all the way to the megayacht marina.
