Babysteps. Apple’s doing the right thing, picking one market, and trying to clobber the bejeezus out of it, at a time. As for the other bits, have no doubt they will get their own events, likely introduced with Leopard at a wild RDF-laden nationwide Apple party (with small pockets of sympathetic partygoers scattered across the globe.

Coincidentally according to Daring Fireball it appears that the OS X on the iPhone is an embedded OS X, not a binary compatible Mac OS X (which is really not a huge surprise). Gruber also speculates that it’s running on an ARM CPU, which also makes sense as most of the smart/PDA market is on ARM or ARM derivative CPUs (even Intel’s XScale was related to the ARM architecture).

As sensational as the iPhone is—and it is!—the technology is the real story of the SteveNote.  Imagine, if all of that technology can be squeezed into a device the size of the iPhone, how easy would it be to put it into laptops, desktops and, yes, the elusive tablet or, say, a Knowledge Navigator-like device.

Better and better days are coming.  I think its going to be a wild ride in 2007.

Should I buy my MacBook now?  Wait until Leopard is released?  The latter, I think.

Bob Kelly