Something to wrap one's brain around: In a year or two, Safari could become the most widely used web Browser PERIOD. This has many implications.
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Why so important?
The iPhone is a classic example of disruptive technology. Disruptive products make people realize that what "was" is no longer the way things should be or will be.
Manufacturers are rushing to change their products. Carriers see a crumbling closed garden and are frantically trying to move into selling services. Monopolies limitations of features and capabilities are exposed. Old revenue streams will shrink as consumers have choices such as realistic and useable wi-fi. Smartphones are quickly entering the mainstrean consumer awareness and market. Companies are frantically moving to copy the iPhone, produce clones, and are refocusing on Useability. Consumers are demanding choices and even government changes to the marketplace and wireless spectrum. Established wireless methods and speeds are being widely questioned. Business models are changing, and analyists and CEO's are frantically trying to understand and predict the future of this technological tsunami.
...all from an initial introduction of the first version of a device that critics say is "nothing new"!
Didn't blink
Apple didn't blink. If you'd done some research, you'd realize that Apple intended to offer third-party access from the beginning (see Jobs comments to NYTimes, John Markoff in Jan 2007 and AllThingsD in May 2007), and was busy working on it before iPhone was even released but it wasn't ready until after Leopard was wrapped up. So no announcement until Leopard was golden.
This blink thing is a self-perpetuating myth created by bloggers and hackers who truly overestimate their importance.
errors
Apple did not blink and to characterize it this way is incorrect. Apple said from the start that it would open up the iPhone, just that they were not ready at the time it was introduced.
Secondly the iPhone in the current release does not have GPS.
No GPS
A quote in the article states "IPhone’s GPS-enabled map feature...". There is no GPS feature in the iPhone. Turn-by-turn driving instructions, yes.
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