eWeek's been covering all of the latest iPhone and Palm Pre news over the last couple weeks - there's been a lot to cover, including the release of the Palm Pre, Palm's newest smart phone, aimed squarely at the Apple iPhone's target market; and the release of Apple's own iPhone 3GS, which sold over a million handsets on opening weekend.

Nathan Eddy of eWeek has quoted me on a couple of his articles.

This one is about the Palm Pre and what is probably going to be a short lived ability to do iTunes syncing:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Midmarket/Apple-May-End-Palm-Pres-iTunes-Synch-...

A commenter pointed out that I'm incorrect in saying that iTunes Plus files are MP3. He's correct - they are AAC without DRM, not MP3. I've contacted Nathan to make that correction, but my original point stands - without DRM, those files are playable on many different devices, rendering the Palm Pre's iTunes hack irrelevant over the long term, even if it does survive.

And in a new article out yesterday, eWeek talks about the return of Steve Jobs and iPhone 3GS sales figures:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Midmarket/Jobs-Impending-Return-iPhone-3G-S-Sal...

“The Pre by no means is an iPhone killer. With this momentum, nothing out there is going to be an iPhone killer.”

The iPhone's momentum comes from the ecosystem of over 50,000 applications available on the App store, and the ever growing mob of iPhone developers who are making apps for this killer mobile device. Combine those factors with the fact that the apps also work on the lower-cost iPod Touch, and you've got a one-two punch that Apple uses to knock out any competition before it reaches the critical mass to create any real competition.

Once again, with the App Store, Apple is showing that they are well ahead of everyone in creating a mobile application distribution mechanism far superior to anyone else. What most people don't realize is Apple's secret weapon - their Xcode development environment - is only starting to energize.