While they may look similar, the way you interface with Android in comparison to OSXPhone is very different. You really have to get hands on both of them to see the philosophical differences.

Maybe some day Apple won’t be able to make a 200% or more profit on their Iphones. That just leaves the wireless phone companies to loath.

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Cool music by the way…

They did. People I know who have used kind of went “well it’s OK I guess, but geez look at the price”. Overall it feels like a phone ready to compete in 2006 or so. Of course, they were all from Europe so they wear berets and are existentialists.

Nope. I was going to check it out at the kiosk firmly beliving that it was going to be clunky crap and Android was going to be choppy and annoying. Have to say, I was really impressed. I’ve never used HTC hardware before. Since most HTC before the G1 (Dream) and the Magic have been WinMo, I never even bothered. WinMo is too teeny and fiddly for my liking.

Apple is doing what Apple always does. Tight control over everything. Geeks have been writing apps for it though. The programming model is sweet (NextStep really) and their apps look really good in a hurry. Also they finally get to actually compile something after years of VB, C#, and Java. Finally, iPhone users really do use their phones for a lot of other things besides voice, email, and text so it’s a big playground.

The Pre is pretty cool (haven’t wrote any code for it yet). It’s biggest challenge is that the WebOS (JS, HTML, CSS) will hammer the crap out of the CPU and battery. On the plus side, anybody who’s into web apps can code for it. If they can hang in they’ve got a good chance.

Windows Mobile and Blackberry still have huge market shares but aren’t really keeping up with the previous 3. They kind of feel like lipstick on a chicken. Blackberry has saturated the business market so they have a steady source of revenue for the next few years but they aren’t getting enough commercial market uptick to interest devs. WinMo really needs a hit with V7 and some killer hardware (good luck with that).

Every geek is wondering what Nokia is going to do. They totally own handsets but are floundering in the smartphone market. Also their programming model is kind of ugly (lot’s of different phone sets, weird C++, weak tools). Their latest smartphones feel like a Hummer with hydrogen fuels cells. All the young dudes expected huge coolness from the Trolltech purchase (who doesn’t love signals and slots?) but nothing has really materialized. Time is passing them by.

Overall, for the geeks this is like web gold rush of 1999-2000. The biggest problems is (shockingly obvious) the carriers. I get the feeling that consumers want to upgrade their phones every year (even if it is expensive). We’re locked into carriers with crappy long term contracts tied to their hardware. That has got to change.

Also, the Hero looks like a great incremental step up. T-Mobile has the myTouch now, which is the HTC Magic / Ion.

All this communication technology and no one with really anything to say. As Kurt Vonegut commented, its all practice in case anything important to say ever crops up.