Is it just me or sometimes Gruber just comes off as a zealot? His opinions on this Flash issue are full of contradictions. Take for example the supposed technical issue that is flash's "appetite" for CPU cycles. Right after raising this "problem" he goes on saying that the native iPhone Youtube app already plays some videos! Oh wait, isn't video decoding a CPU intensive task? Does the guy even realize that Flash has a lite version that runs on quite a few smartphones (Nokia's N-Series; UIQ; etc)?

Also, all that babble about the web, does Apple really want to prevent its users to access the full functionality of, say, Last.fm, MySpace and other social/media oriented sites?

Either way, i doubt i'll be getting an iPhone anytime soon (or ever). I've been thinking of buying an N800, they're quite accessible right now.