> 1. Price. They are dirt cheap.

So are iPhones of the earlier generation. Which run fast and have a plenty of apps available.

  > 2. HTML. Yes HTML+JavaScript. Every monkey can knock out apps for these, much like you could with MIDP2 / J2ME.

Yup. And they will crawl, not run. And if you want at least to make the walk, you will need to learn many more trick than reference counting (which you don't really use any more since ARC came).

  > Hell, this is the scariest thing out there: cheap, easy with the potential to reuse stuff out there.

Nothing scary in the stuff that barely works.

  > These WILL be ubiquitous.

Is it a year of Linux desktop yet?