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It occurred to me after spending a few minutes yesterday perfecting my two-screen iPhone menu (thanks, 1.1.3!) that, even with plenty of available space on the “stuff I really do use, honestly” first screen, the iPod icon is on the second screen. Remember when everyone — including John Gruber — called it an “iPod phone”? (If I was a more boastful personality, I could point to my own pre-iPhone post, two months before the Macworld keynote and point out how right it was in retrospect, but I’m not, so I won’t.)

Not only does this say that the iPod, while incredibly successful, is clearly not incapable of blinding Apple (even if it did everyone else), but it also says that we’re perhaps too quick to define the future from the past, and that just doesn’t work with entirely new stuff.

In short, when you look for the next thing Apple releases with Multi-touch, don’t just fling a Newton into the microwave.

Speaking of iPhone — do you think the iPhone/iPod touch SDK will be available for Windows, too? (And will it be an Xcode port?) Will emulators be involved, or will it all be live on the device? Will the software be for sale on iTunes? Solely? If so, can you try out your own apps? And will there be some sort of amazing new iPhone Interface Builder? UIKit doesn’t exactly have NIBs.