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>but rather just showcase that the iphone internet experience is much more capable than the competition.

Except the competition does have both Java and Flash, so it depends how you define "capable" doesn't it?

It's interesting how they're criticising them over the use of browser plugins and not their dubious use of 'the internet'.

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I guess i'd define "capable" as having the best browser experience ever experienced on a cell phone. The competition may have java and flash, but the competition also dosn't have the touch based technology combined with the the design aesthetics that the iphone has. So when I mention "capable" and they use "the internet", you can say in a sense that they are talking about the iphone internet experience thats unique to that device even without the java and flash.

When people at large (i.e., a majority of people likely to buy the phone) think that "the Internet" is the same as "the web" (which is what they meant), it's not really surprising that they phrased it the way they did.

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