If you think the top selling consumer electronic right now is irrelevant; you really need to get out of the cave.

I can't stand a watered-down version of the web, and that's what people still get with the iPhone.

Where did the author say the Iphone was irrelevant? He referred to Safari as pointless, and in the context of this article it is. It's a watered-down, awful web browser that doesn't give full access to the phone.