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While not specifically a phone, the iphone does have ancestry that didn't exactly "sweep the market"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform)

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iOS has about as much to do with the Newton as it has to do with Go.

And Windows Phone 7 has barely anything to do with Windows Mobile. And no one can court developers like Microsoft(the big problem with Nokia). There are already close to 10,000 applications compared to close to 5,000 for WebOS which had a head start.

Windows Phone 7 is based on Windows CE 6 [1]. It has a lot more code in common with Windows Mobile than iOS has with the Newton.

1. http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/windows-phone-7-based-on-...

Windows CE 6 is a complete redesign of Windows CE 5.2(on which Windows Mobile is based).

Windows Phone 7 is product of the same organization, staffed by mostly the same people, with only certain degree of improvement to development process since the CE 6. What makes you hope 7 will have better quality?

Everything I've heard about the Zune HD (the only pure CE 6 device I'm aware of) is positive. Maybe you're getting confused with Windows Mobile 6.5, which is based on an older version.

Besides, Windows 7 is of unquestionably better quality than Vista, so what's your point?

The value of the Newton to iOS is not in shared technology (obviously, that is next to nothing), but in what Apple may have learned about the market. That is probably impossible to quantify in any way.

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