IPhone as an iPod questions

I have formed this as a complaint in this discussion previously but the moderators keep deleting it for some reason so perhaps if I phrase it in the form of a question.....
Anyway, here is my question.
Does anyone have a good or technical explanation why with the iPhone, which is supposedly the "best iPod ever", one can't do these things?
Allow manual update rather than force you to sync?
Allow TV Out option?
Allow you to use your iPhone as a flashdrive/hardrive as every other iPod does?

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