As far as Meridian and the iPhone are concerned; at the recent Apple WWDC, Steve Jobs stated that third-party applications were easily achieved on the iPhone by utilising Web 2.0 programming.
It would simply be an issue of sufficient motivation on Meridian's part to develop a Web 2.0-based M.Config program for the iPhone - but given Bob Stuart's apparent cynicism towards the existing iPod phenomenon I doubt Meridian will be quick off the mark.
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If you haven't seen it yet; there's a highly amusing news story on American television on the woman who successfully bought her place at the front of the queue for the iPhone for $800. Her intention was to use her $16,000 to buy all that day's stock of the iPhone at that particular store to sell-on at eBay. However, she hadn't factored-in the store's policy of restricting sales to one iPhone per person. The guy that accepted her $800 bribe pigged-out on all the available iPhone accessories.
Karma.