[CyberMonkey]

I know some people love the iPhone, and there are some that hate it.
Is one actually better than the other? No, it depends on what the person likes.
Yes PPC being version 6 and iPhone being the first version for Apple (let's not count the Newton). BUt also remember how much longer PPCs have been around before the IPhone. ALso remember the tech abilities today compared to when the PPCs first came out.
Apple was able to sit down with current tech and say "Here what we can do, and here what we want."
PPCs had to evolve from what they were, and alot of times the evolution process of things like PPCs are slow, due to the fact that not everybody and their brother have one, so it remains at a level that people are used to, and the changes are done slowly to keep loyal PPC users using and buying PPCs.