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"Word comes from Financial Times that the folks at Google were astonished to see 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhone than from any other mobile. \nWhy this doesn't surprise me? Well, anyone who has ever tried surfing the net on any smartphone other than the iPhone knows that this procedure is akin to torment in the ninth circle of hell. Even with Opera Mini, which is undeniably better than mobile IE, the experience is miles behind iPhone with its touchscreen and Safari. \nVic Gundotra, head of Google\u2019s mobile operations, claims that \u201CThe world is changing. Users want an internet without fences. They know how to type in Google.com if they want to get to it.\u201D I agree, but the world would not be changing if it weren't for  the iPhone. \nDon't get me wrong, the iPhone is not perfect, and some shortcomings are so glaringly obvious that one wonders why they're there in the first place. But as far as anything online - browsing the web, navigating through Google Maps, installing new applications - goes, iPhone, in gamer terms, owns everyone else out there. \nWhy is this so important? Well, because it gives us a good guess to what the world's dominant mobile platform will be, and how tough it will be for Google and its Android to catch up, especially after El Jobso announces the iPhone SDK. \nI'm getting the iPhone soon, even though it's not officially available where I live. Not because I need it - I have a smartphone already  - but because I don't plan to miss out on the future once that SDK goes live."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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