Amazing how far efforts have come! Absolutely shameful that this wasn't something Apple included.
I don't think it's shameful at all. Remember, this is a Version One-Oh product here, and it's unreasonable to expect a fully polished development environment on day 1. Apple obviously hears the noise we're making and even before the iPhone was released, they showed us it was at least feasible to make additional apps, but there's absolutely no point in bragging that iPhone runs OSX if developers can't make use of it, and in January, the Steve made quite a fuss about that.
Just as Dashcode wasn't available the day widgets showed up, or Xcode wasn't really around until OSX got rolling, a "Phonecode" or whatever is surely in the works, with all the good stuff like an interface library. It'll be draggy-droppy and allow you to code in ObjC or Java or even HTML. It'll have hooks into the rest of the phone so you can talk to the address book, the mapping software, the internet, the battery, the wireless radio, the EDGE network, the camera, the orientation sensor, the multitouch screen, the music libary, the album artwork, the speaker, the photo library, the voicemail, the Settings control panel, and all the other stuff squarely outside of the relm of a damned web2.0 "application", which as we've seen so far, is mostly tracking applications for web2.0 apps.
