The irony, of course, is that the person in this thread whose defending the iPhone is best on all sides by ignorant fanboys engaging in down votes... they've even managed to bury unrelated threads that I commented on, simply because I commented on them!

Hacker News is a rabidly anti-iPhone, anti-Apple, and anti-innovation, and anti-technology site. Or at least its overrun with ideologues with those characterisitcs.