Enough has been written about Steve Jobs and the iPhone to fill the blogosphere from here to eternity and back again twice over by a slow train, so please indulge Surprise Central's skewed take on it.
While the "so-hot-he's-molten" core of Apple has essentially changed all the rules about mobile telephony on these shores, he is faithfully following the rules of Surprise:
1) Despite the fact that everyone kinda knew Apple was coming out with a phone sooner or later, Jobs Gave 'Em What They Didn't Expect when it came to the product itself.
2) The iPhone went way beyond even the most optimistic and futuristic predictions, Exceeding Expectations by Miles With Such a Quantum Leap in design and functionality it left other phone manufacturers (like Motorola, Samsung, LG and the like, all who introduced incremental changes to their handsets at CES in Vegas while Jobs was delivering nuclear Pow! in San Francisco) reeling.
3) What's more, if Surprise is defined as The Constant Expansion of the Boundaries of Extreme, then Jobs took the boundaries to the outer limits and punched a hole through infinity on Tuesday.
Unlike the U.K., North America doesn't "knight" its great artists and entrepreneurs, but because of the iPhone, on behalf of FOPs everywhere, this blog bestows Steve Jobs with the title of Sir Prize.
Now, all the damn thing has to do is work. Let's talk in June.