http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...swer-criticism
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On the flip side of the debate about whether Flash is ill, in rude health, or simply untroubled by Apple's wilful refusal to countenance it on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, we have an analysis from Peter-Paul Koch, a "mobile platform strategist, consultant and trainer" who says (with plenty of swearing to boot, if you're in filter territory) that the iPhone is the Internet Explorer 6 de nos jours.
Yes. That's right. He's saying: don't develop for it. Or rather, don't develop exclusively for it to the exclusion of other mobile browsers, and certainly don't give it special status.
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This is the core of his argument, and it is a good one: that in developing only for the iPhone, you ignore all the other people out there, and that's not good.
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The Guardian UK article links to the original-it's a pretty funny rant. I do agree though that designing for specific platforms at the expense of others does lead to an uncomfortable balkanization of the Web...besides, the beauty of the new mobile browsers is the promise of the "real web, at your fingertips".