The fellow is clueless. Enough said...

It's amazing how many dumb things people can think to write about when they make up their minds that they don't like a particular bit of technology, a particular company or that company's actions.

Can anyone really be thinking that in the next couple of months Asus, HP or even Google are going to come through with an experience that beats what the experience and knowledge three years of real-life iPhone OS and iPhone/iPod hardware feedback has brought to Apple? These are some of the companies I've heard mentioned as being in that position.

Microsoft has been trying to get it right for a decade without managing to do so, and most people that work in their research and development groups aren't exactly dumb.