Steve Jobs & the i-phone:What if this thing works as advertised? I mean, my God, what then?

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Apple’s competitors, by contrast, find the prospect of the iPhone terrifying.
‘The entire fucking Western world hopes that it’s a case of imperial overstretch,’ says the CEO of one of the planet’s largest comms companies. ‘But everybody is quietly saying, er, what if people want to buy a $500 phone?
What if, er, people have been waiting for a device that does all these things? What if this thing works as advertised? I mean, my God, what then?”