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Contrary to concerns that, for the iPhone, Apple wil l also start collecting small payments for software upgrades, feature enabling and add-ons that used to come free (like the two bucks they charged to enable t he 802.11n feature in shipped Macs), it ain't true. You can re st easy. All later software upgrades and feature enabling for the forthcoming iPhone wil l be free of charge. More importantly, "new software features and entirely new applications" will likewise be free. As if we needed another reason to buy one when it comes out. Early adopters rejoice! Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer announced this for the iP hone (and the Apple TV) during the quarterly conference call d one yesterday. "We hope the result will be to surprise and delight our iPhone c ustomers," he said. Which is about as far as he went; in true Apple fashion, no word on what these free features and applications will actually be. Great. So release it already, durnit!