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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
As someone who has used Pocket PCs since they first came out, and ditto with the iPhone, there's only two significant advantages you've outlined there: GPS and the voice command. Of these two, I find the lack of voice command to be the iPhone's greatest weakness; its psuedo-GPS works scarily well. On the other hand, the iPhone's media player and web browser beat WM's hands-down. There's no clear-cut victor. However...
This is a good point, except that I've found plain-vanilla WM to be only somewhat tolerable stability-wise. The last WM device I had that didn't memory leak regularly was my iPAQ 3870 running WM2002. Every single Pocket PC Phone I've owned since leaks memory regularly, necessitating regular soft resets. The iPhone is downright more stable to start. It's not perfect either, but it's really rare that I have to reboot it.
Alex also makes good points: WM is great for the power user who's willing to spend hours setting it up. The iPhone is simpler out-of-the-box, and I think Apple deserves points for considering that kind of ease in the on-iPhone App Store plan. Apple also tends to follow the "less-is-more" philosophy, and tends to opt for UI simplicity over features. Most notable example: cut-and-paste still doesn't exist on the iPhone. This bugs power users, but many end-users prefer the simpler interface.
My post should not be construed as saying the iPhone will destroy WM. However, Apple has clearly done some stuff in building a simple-to-use-and-deploy API that Microsoft really ought to take some lessons from.
--janak
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First, I would kill myself if I had to spend more then 20 minutes to set up my device.
Second I, am not trying to put down all the iPhone fans, after all the beauty is in hands of a beholder. But truth is, iPhone is not much better than WM, it has it's strong and weak points as well, as you stated in your post. My point is that iPnone get's more attention, than it should be and as any overhyped product it will be as quickly forgotten as something new comes alone, be it WM7 or Google's Android, or something completely new.