iPhone released: discouraged as I am?
allenbrunson: it's hardly the case that the other 21k developers got "dicked over!"  apple decided they were only going to let a few in during the beta period.  i bet the situation will be rectified at some point after the app store launches.the only thing those 4k developers got that the rest of us didn't is a key to install apps onto real iphone hardware.  everybody else can still develop for the iphone simulator, which is very good.  and if you really really need to see your app on a real iphone, you can go the jailbreak route.