I stopped taking the above bit of tripe seriously when the author started yapping about doing most of his word processing on an iPhone. He’s either very patient or has a high threshold of frustration. If I had to type (or dictate) several pages of text to an iPhone, I’m pretty sure I’d be buying a new screen or a new window about 1/10th of the way through after I threw the thing in a rage.

Same with an iPhone’s tiny lens being no replacement for a real camera’s lens, resolution notwithstanding. Scanner app? Listening to re-broadcast scanner feeds ain’t the same thing as listening to the radio waves themselves. Remember that someone has to re-broadcast those things. They don’t just magically appear on an app. (And in case of a real emergency, cell data service might be down anyway.)