(Shucks, did that come off mean and snarky? I didn't mean it. Come back.)
It didn't seem mean and snarky to me. I agree 100% with what you said. I like the fact that you acknowledged the developers, as well as the platform.
To be fair to the 'Web OS' of Palm, that looks interesting as well, but we'll just have to see.
I'm also still waiting for a development environment for the iPhone that amateurs can program; a sort of VB (or closer to Apple's ancestry, HyperCard) for the iPhone. You'd drag and drop just like the UI toolkit, but instead of Objective C, a more friendly OOP like Applescript might be used. Building 'Publish to the iTunes Store' for free might be nice (although the volume of these things would prohibit the kind of control that they currently have over the store).
I also agree with the background stuff. When something is not on your screen, it's just draining the battery (ah, battery technology, if you'd only catch up to everything else!). I suspect that the launch time of apps with the iPhone 3GS will be fast enough that having am app already running of-screen and flipping to it will no longer be seen as such a significant advantage as it seems now.
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