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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
The iPhone? Game-changing. Not the right phone everyone, and definitely over-hyped, but it changed the whole landscape of smartphones and what people expect from them.
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The revolutionary thought for me, in all of this product religion, is that Apple brought me something so enjoyable and easy to use, that it took technical inferiority out of the equasion.
No, my iPhone 2G doesn't have GPS. No, it doesn't have 3G.
But in every other area, it gives me so much ease of use, is so focused on giving me an enjoyable experience with it, that GPS and 3G is nice - but nothing critical.
The funny thing is, I've always been a die hard Windows Mobile fanboy. To an extent I still am. But no matter what device HTC churns out, I'm not buying one. Because the thought of going back to the standard WM UI is just dreadful. And the thought of having to use a not completely integrated touch experience (Touch Flo as an extension/addition to WM) is ditto.
There's a vast amount of sexy and technically superior hardware out there, that could easily compete with the iPhone. But the user experience... yuck !
MS needs to revamp their OS, and design the whole experience from ground up, for use with touch by finger. Forget touch by stylus. iPhone killed that concept.
That'd make for a technically great mobile operating system. With a huge developer base (and potential for even more, considering the relatively easy path to developing WM applications. And a great usability experience.
Oh - and possibly do the same on the Windows operating systems. After 18 years of Windows, it took 5 days for my iMac to convince me, that in my house - Windows is something that'll be running in a virtual machine, for use with the odd application I can't avoid having to use.
Same story for OS X. No, it's not the perfect operating system. But the usability benefits are so high, and it performs so well, that in my case there weren't really any competition once it got on to my desk.
I think Microsoft has... challenges
Gosh, I hope that's not why I did it. 
Did Hell Just Freeze Over??!
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