[eugeniub]

If you don’t understand how iPhone could have defeated Windows Mobile, it’s hard to take you seriously on your other points.

[gary17the]

You m-u-s-t be a Steve Jobs fan, you even argue similarly ;) J/K.

But seriously, there is a question of whether Apple won the mobile device battle because they were brilliant and revolutionary, or whether Microsoft has lost the mobile device battle because they were dumb as a bag'o'hammers and quit improving their platform for entire years.

Which goes back to my initial suggestion that the general public might have reasons not to really consider Apple to be the most important technological company of our time.

If you have an explanation, I'd be delighted.

[tzs]

> But seriously, there is a question of whether Apple won the mobile device battle because they were brilliant and revolutionary, or whether Microsoft has lost the mobile device battle because they were dumb as a bag'o'hammers and quit improving their platform for entire years.

There was more at the time than just Apple and Microsoft. iPhone also quickly supplanted Palm and Blackberry and assorted feature phones. Android was not yet out, but after seeing iPhone Google completely redesigned Android to be much more iPhone-like.

So it seems it either has to be Apple really did do something brilliant and revolutionary, or everyone else was dumb as a bag'o'hammers.