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Motorola Droid: A Promising iPhone Challenger

Apple's greatest strengths have always been the operating system and the user interface (UI). the limited availability of software has been a negative - not to me personally, but to many. the beautiful thing about the iPhone is that Apple moved into a space where the existing UI was even more horrible than Windows, AND they now have more, not less, software (apps) than the competition. as phones evolve into mini-laptops, with the UI even more critical with a tiny screen, nothing is going to challenge the iPhone without challenging Apple's superior UI. it will be interesting to see if Google has the creativity to do that - microsoft surely cannot.

iPhone users will not switch to droid. however, the rate of migration to the iPhone will slow if droid is good. a lot of VZ customers think about switching to get an iPhone. droid might keep them from doing that.