There is an interesting side effect of the expected broad success of the iPhone: becoming mainstream, like iPods (and unlike Macs) and thus making an old assumption fall:

no one bothers to write a virus for MacOs, all hackers chase after Windows.

It could be some sort of reality check for Apple’s reputation of good quality in software: in the long run, security will be a strong issue  for a flexible device, meant to access complex services. A security researcher affirms on his blog that he has already found a way to identify potential vulnerabilities, through the embedded web browser.

I must confess that I find this entertaining, mostly because I have a negative bias towards Apple. I have a lot of  rational reasons for this attitude, but I suspect that it all goes back to the fact that Apple products are so strictly related to being cool, a skill I never managed to master.