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The downside of the first gen iPhone was that third parties couldn’t develop applications for it. However, as spotted on Daring Fireball, some of the applications being developed for the second gen iPhone might make people ache for those days:

Yikes. The thing people miss is the effort people like Apple put into sane interface design. Minimal is very hard, a messy overload is quite easy – if you want applications to be nice you need to really work at it. Scary stuff.