Nuclear War?

I'd heard a quote thrown around in the wee morning hours about Apple's MacWorld event.

Apple's going to start a Nuclear War.

Normally, I hear something like that, and the hype alarms go off. Something told me this would be different. I had absolutely no idea.

Apple could charge anything they wanted for iPhone, and they'd get it. The device is VERY high-res, 160dpi which is even better than my laptop screen. They appear to be using sub-pixel rendering as well, so everything looks amazingly smooth. If the user-interface lives up to the MacWorld demo, they'll have managed to kill the entire iPod line all at once. THIS is the iPod now.

I'm a Microsoft fan. I've got ton's of Microsoft stuff, save for Zune, because that thing was stillborn. But even if it wasn't, Apple just put a bullet in it. Nothing on the planet, and nothing at CES, is sexier than the iPhone.

And I, for one, welcome my new widescreen, touchscreen overlord.

Update: Nuclear War indeed. Apple just announced that the reason the Google functionality is so pervasive and seamless in the iPhone is because they've been working with them, and Google's CEO just took the stage.

That there in the distance? That's the mushroom cloud over Redmond. Even Vista isn't sexier than this phone. I keep calling it that. Apple calls it an "internet communicator". It's neither. This is a computer, and it's the best looking computer around. People will buy these instead of laptops.