Technical journalist Brian Caulfield said he had seven disappointments with the iPhone: the cost, no Adobe Flash support, no replaceable batteries, no video recording, no cut and paste, no MMS and no voice dialing. Alex Zaharov-Reutt couldn’t resist examining each item one by one on Tuesday.

Of course, the cost of owning an iPhone 3G is going to go up because the data plan and SMS plans get more expensive. However, that’s the cost of building a 3G network, according to Mr. Zaharov-Reutt, not something that Apple failed to deliver.

On item #3, the author with ITWire pointed out that he owns a Kensington iPhone battery pack and linked to it. No big deal there.

Regarding the lack of a video recorder -- just wait. That’s very likely to be one of the native applications released for iPhone 2.0. Along with voice dialing.

"So, the seven iPhone disappointments aren’t really all that disappointing after all. Yes, some will rely on third party software when they’re standard features elsewhere. But the iPhone’s stellar ease of use and gorgeous interface puts most other phones to shame," Mr. Zaharov-Reutt concluded.

The gist of the story isn’t simply that one author finds disappointments and and another refutes them. Rather, it’s how one user perceives the term disappointments and how another use has gone ahead an solved the problem or how his work flow doesn’t really demand certain functionalities.

Finally, Apple’s engineers work with constrained resources, so if they know a developer is working on something cool, they’ll move on to bigger fish to fry. Today’s "disappointment" is a tomorrow’s WWDC Apple Design Award for a developer.