Finally Apple have announced the much rumoured iPhone. What a cool device. They have redefined cell phones, and in my opinion hand-held devices in general. I don't remember any new gadget announcement bringing me to say the word "fuck" as many times as the introduction of the iPhone did.

A while back I wrote about multi-functional devices and polymorphic UIs. I had some pretty lofty ideas and hopes for an iPod / iPhone multi-functional gadget and I have to say I was blown away with the iPhone.

I think Apple has nailed it.

For me one of the neatest things about the device is that it runs OS X - or maybe some kind of cut down version. Presumably I will be able to ssh into my iPhone and do some ruby scripting. I'm sure someone will write an app that can be used to control other devices in the home - salling clicker style.

Most popular story on digg by far.

The news of the iPhone has turned out to be wildly popular. AAPL shares rose by some 8% and iPhone was pretty much the only news in Steve's keynote.

On digg.com this story is the most popular story in the last 365 days and it's barely 13 hours old.

The stock market was also impressed

Take a look at the graph of AAPL against PALM and RIMM (makers of blackberry) as at close of trading on the 9th January 2007 (thanks to daringfireball for that link)

picture taken from finance.yahoo.com