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Yes it has. I remember the hiding of it being one of the changes in an iPhone OS update.

Alas, then I remember wrong. Regardless Safari has done it for a while. If someone can find discussion of its removal I'll edit my original post.

I can't seem to edit my post, looks like mobile safari has done this since 2008 for what it is worth.

If you tap on the address bar then it shows the http://.

Looks like Opera Mini removed it a while back also. I didn't even notice. :) So in the end, it's not that big a deal imho.