DMGWay Ahead of Whatever's in Second Place
I'm not saying that the iPhone is better than everything else out there. I'm saying that to me, it's so much better that everything else looks like a cheap knockoff.
Noted techie JWZ swapped his Palm Pre for an iPhone:
So even though I hate Apple's developer-hostility, and even though I hate that now I'm giving money to AT&T, and even though AT&T's network is way less reliable in San Francisco than Sprint's, and even though I absolutely despise the iPhone's on-screen keyboard... at least now I have a phone whose software actually works.
And Mac developer Steven Frank notes that Android isn't really an iPhone competitor yet either.
And when Verizon pours real money into promoting their "Droid" Android phone, and ends up with stupid typos in their TV commercial, it just looks more and more like it's only right that the iPhone is eating everyone's lunch.
So why is it that AT&T can't make money on the iPhone? Seems like shareholders should be screaming bloody murder about now. With an exclusive deal for the hottest (by a mile) handset on the market, AT&T should be raking in the cash. What gives?
Honestly, from where I'm sitting it looks like Apple is a genious company that makes fantastic stuff, and nobody else, not even their allies can keep up.