Scary yes but inevitable because mechanical technology, muscle power, has barely budged while machine brain power has rocketed ahead, leaving the integration of the two grossly underexploited.
While the BlackBerry's plastic keyboard and tight integration with corporate e-mail systems makes it an unbeatable e-mail machine, Nielsen Mobile's first-quarter data show that the iPhone is all about multimedia, playing music, video and online games far above the average usage of those services for other mobile phone users.