John C. Dvorak, I love you. You’re a smart, curmudgeonly fella and I’ve been reading you for years in various forms. I have to tell you, though, this is an inaccurate path to follow. As Scott Bourne pointed out on TWIT #93 Apple is reshaping the way phone makers approach designing phones. People will no longer be satisfied with sub-par handsets of dubious functionality. So far, the most popular handsets have been all about the bang and not the buck. While I doubt Apple will have an iPod-like success with the iPhone overnight, it will have a significant impact on the mobile handset market and Apple will enjoy a great deal of sales. Will Nokia get out of the business in 5 years? No. Then again, Apple won’t have 75% of the handset market, either. There is a happy medium here. Cool yer jets, tiger!

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