iPhone Madness, Again (and Again, and Again...)

Wow. It's like every single journalism nutcase came back to work this week, and they all have some speculative angle on the . It's either going to store less than 100 tracks, be a bigger thing than the original , run , or be the Newton's second coming (or a bit of everything).

I suppose all the usual pundits will weigh in eventually (even though none of them has probably been keeping track of it as I have), but there is one opinion I'm really looking forward to reading: Michael Swaine's.

As DDJ's "Editor at Large", he has been single-handedly responsible for making sure I pick up a copy every now and then, even years after I left "active duty" as a full-time coder, and his latest piece on Podcasting was, well... Brilliant.

As to the itself, well... I'm not holding my breath. There will be plenty of music phones this - plus I have a hard trouble believing compatibility by itself will be a selling factor for a mobile phone...

Update: Dominik Wagner and João Bordalo have joined the Planet - proof positive there are more developers and -oriented folk out there blogging. Drop a line if you like the focus and want to be included...

(I actually "broke" the Planet for a bit - I think it's time to clean up my patches and do the hard work of bolting on the latest version of Mark's parser)