Firstly, there are no missing features in the new iPhone. Well, as far as Apple is concerned anyway. They haven’t done anything different to any other handset vendor – how else are they to encourage consumers to buy the next release and the next and then the next… Nokia is actually the worst offender in my opinion. When has Nokia for example, ever released a device with everything you ever wanted – without the need to auction one of your internal organs to buy one. Which brings me onto my next point, how can anyone have anything negative to say about the new pricing structure? It’s free on certain tariffs. I think the same skeptics want everything for free in life and forget that every other vendor charge through the nose for high end devices.
It’s ridiculous (embarrassing even) to hear an audience applaud Steve Jobs announce a flush socket for a headset. It’s something that should have come in the first release. Get a life.
I’m a loyal customer of Apple but it’s just one (of the smallest) players on the field. It might be a George Best of our industry, but it’s still one player. I’m looking forward to the rest of the vendors playing catch-up to help encourage mainstream adoption of Web enabled phones at a reasonable price.
Regarding an improvement to the development community ecosystem I’ve been reading on the Mobile Monday email list – I don’t see a major change – major change occurred with the release of the first iPhone. For some reason, most people need to see a screen shot before they’ll believe what’s coming. The first iPhone changed the development community’s perception with respect to ‘how’ consumers will consume content. I remember when the *vast majority* of public comment from the mobile development community on mobile Web for example, was “it will never happen anytime soon, long live WAP’”. That was up to the actual release of the iPhone. After which, the comments were “it’s too expensive”, “it’s too slow”…
It’s not rocket science. Nor does it take a fortune teller to see that mobile technology is not only changing at incredible speed, but that the speed at which change occurs, is also gaining momentum all the time. Hope that last sentence makes sense 
Furthermore, connection speeds are improving, pricing is coming down and the interface is improving. So, nothing different to the landscape changes we witnessed on the Web during the mid 90’s.
I’m delighted to see a new 3G enabled iPhone, as mine, which currently supports EDGE (slower connection speed) only works satisfactorily when there’s an EDGE connection available. Without one, the connection speed is either too slow to download email or browse the Web, or it dies altogether. The new version is also more supportive of the development community. This means you won’t have to unlock your phone to download non-Apple applications. Check out Twinkle if you’re a Twitter user – it’s fantastic. The downside is that we’re going to see Apple-specific applications, meaning developers have yet another non-standard device that needs to be ported.