Plenty of people are bad-mouhting Apple and the iPhone elsewhere, if not on this forum. If you don't see it, I don't know what to say.

Other than outright bad-mouthing, or trash-talking, there's also a significant amount of indifference or lack of recognition for its significance. It comes up each and every time anyone talks about other handsets in pretty much every blog and forum. You'll see more times than not, people comparing what may be in store for one platform 6 months to a year down the road, to the current or past iPhone. The platform has been moving pretty slowly, but only because the rest of the industry is still a few years behind.

It is the archetype and it deserves to be recognized as such - that's not what happens much of the time.