“Listen, I’m not a big fan of chiptune music nor of far-out alternative controllers, and I’ve stuck through this site’s various bouts of news on making music with Nintendo cartriges, Gameboys, refrigerator CPUs, and wacked-out Wii controllers … Anyway, I hope that people who aren’t as excited about this platform can appreciate what it’s doing for our niche”

Indeed. iPhone stories should not be marginalized just because a few vocal individuals have an attitude about the platform. The pace will die down in any case, as developers settle in to the iPhone SDK.

Let the uninterested utilize their scroll bars, and let the rest of us read iPhone news without artificial impediments….

Anyway, I hope that people who aren’t as excited about this platform can appreciate what it’s doing for our niche, just as I get a kick out of the waves of sonic doom people wield with their Wii nunchucks wired into LSDJ while Bjork maniacally smiles on her reacTable.

P.S. I made that part up about refrigerator CPUs …

“Readers have complained that we’re doing so much mobile music coverage that it’s hard to wade through it, specifically in regards to the iPhone.”

There is a powerful technology for dealing with less interesting content, called the “scroll bar.” In my experience, when posters complain that there’s so much “xxxxx” that it’s hard to wade through it,” it usually means something simpler — they just don’t like “xxxxx” at all.

“I’ll be consolidating [mobile music/iPhone] news into a more manageable weekly post.”

You say, “the goal is to make this information more manageable both to those who love mobile music making, and those who don’t.” But for me, as someone interested in mobile music, that’s not “more manageable,” it’s “less available.”

IMHO, news that’s (in effect) embargoed and then shoehorned into a weekly post shouldn’t be called “more manageable.” It should be called “late.” Please don’t make mobile news a second class citizen.

I’d like to add my support for mobile music coverage in general, and iPhone coverage in particular. Don’t forget that iPhone 3rd party apps are in their start-up phase, so it’s completely natural that there’s a lot of activity.

Also, remember that there are lots of people who for whatever reason just don’t like Apple and/or the iPhone. They will tend to be more vocal about this than people who are ok with the coverage — but that doesn’t mean they’re more numerous.

The iPhone is an important and interesting new platform for musicians. It deserves full coverage.

Don’t cave to the haters.