You have to be reminded of "pent-up demand" being a leading issue. Many people have been anticipating the new iPhone update for two months prior to the WWDC announcement so iPhone 3G sales has fallen off some whie people waited to see what features the new phone would offer OR if there would be a price drop on the 3Gs. BOTH things occurred. (not to mention the increase in storage).
Second, many people out there just want the latest technology, wo when AT&T announced that it was adjusting its policy to allow some earler-in-cycle adopters to update at the lowest price point, many of those users decided to update.
Finally, there are lots of people who have seen the latest offerings from BlackBerry, Google, Samsung and others, and while some features (i.e. MMS and actual keyboard) are nice to have, none compete with the overall experience of the iPhone.
Perhaps as more developers start to develop for the Pre and others Apple sales could suffer, but by then, Apple will have a new curveball to throw at them (perhaps expanding to other carriers). When that happens, watch the sales boom.
No, but neither could mine two years ago, and my coworkers would be sending "funny" pictures back and forth amongst themselves and we had to go through great pains to use email with me, which most of the time left me out.
On the other hand my coworkers were always trying to burrow my iPhone so they could watch videos and youtube.
Your second statement was my point. I'd give up MMS in a heartbeat for the rest of the positive features. Besides, the MMS thing is AT&T, not Apple. Apple's only fault in it is that they are exclusive with AT&T. That will likely change in the future.
