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Agreed. Windows Mobile tries too hard to appear like 'Windows' desktop. I have been, necessarily, a Windows Mobile user for years - it's lame. A necessary evil.

In the heat of the day, you do NOT want to be messing with a stylus, and so the natural (for me) choice has always been to resort to 'touch'. This can be even more annoying on WM because the UI's small on-screen buttons are designed to be 'pecked'. I know you can partially solve this via overlays, etc, but that's just wastage ...

The sad thing is that they could produce a very capable touch phone ... if they completely revolutionised the UI ...

In other words, Apple wins this battle ... easily.

It's interesting that Apple can come along and ace the UI at version 1 (well, Jack of Spades at least), instead of version 25 (and counting) for Microsoft ... because really, Windows mobile just builds on a billion previous windowsMobile/pocketPc/iPAQ releases of WinCE. And no overlay in the world is going to fix that. And they still haven't aced it.

What's nice is that Apple haven't tried to put the OSX UI on to a small phone ... who remembers all the 'artists impression' of what an iPhone would look like?

Still waiting on you MS. Depending on how the iPhone performs, I may not be waiting much longer ... well, being located in the UK means I probably will be waiting much longer, lol.