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The iPhone is a consumer product that a lot of people are using for business. The fact that Microsoft considers the *people* in business as "not consumers" has been their problem all along.
Given the extreme lead times Microsoft believes is acceptable, they should have started jumping to action as soon as they saw what was happening within weeks of the iPhone's release and immediate popularity. They didn't really *start* taking action until the iPhone grabbed significant market share, which took a year for the numbers to start coming in.
Worse, they didn't make the immediate decision to decouple the interface completely from the base OS, so they could change the look and feel of the OS quickly as consumer preferences change.
Still, the Imagio, which is the slower dumber cousin of the HD2, fit what I was looking for. A Windows Mobile iPhone-esque device. The HD2 will be more impressive, though it won't really arrive in the States until it's already last year's news. Seriously, the tech press is drooling over science fiction at this point as far as the US is concerned. The specs blow anything in the market today away, but the HD2 is not IN the market TODAY here. By the time it gets here, it may well be run-of-the-mill.
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