“If there is a billion-dollar gamble underlying Apple’s iPhone, it lies in what this smart cellphone does not have: a mechanical keyboard.”
This pretty much sums it up. Apples nailed the perfect form factor with the iPod (a cigarette packet rather than the disastrous Newton brick).
However, things have moved on since, in the world of smartphones and the Blackberry style keyboard beneath screen is ‘good enough’.
I feel myself drooling over the iPhone but wishing it had a keyboard. And that seems worrying.