I could certainly understand all of these iPhone vs Windows Mobile posts if I were sitting here at my computer debating everything. I, myself, would own an iPhone if 1) it could dial out over the non-existent coverage, 2) if it didn't have so many non-business features (OK, I am not use them), and 3) if it had a physical keyboard. But, that's just I. I think it is a great phone. But, being I, I find it hard to sit by and not debate some of the points that the users of iPhone make that I think are just not true.
I do not think you hear no excitement from Windows Mobile users because they don't like them. It is because Windows CE and Windows 6.1 have been used for quite awhile. My guess is if I had an iPhone, I would be somewhat excited by its novelty. Frankly, if I go from i-Mate to an HTC to a Nokia to a Samsung, I find no reason to get excited all over again just as when I was a kid and opened a football for Christmas, I wouldn't have been excited by opening another.
The iPhone was targeted at the same crowd as the iPod who usually aren't 25 to 45 year old business people. Business people tend to go with the Blackberry or a phone with 6.1, although it is obvious that iPhone is catching on in that realm. But, the previous set of users just don't get all that excited about things like a Smartphone.
I will give you the ActiveSync issue, but Microsoft has been making OS going back past 2000. I doubt they will be doomed. The system may be horrible compared to Apple's, but they aren't not going to be out of the mobile phone business.
How did Vista get into this?
