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I have a T-Mobile G1. My girlfriend has an iPhone. There is just no comparison. Hands down, the iPhone is a better handset altogether in every imaginable way. Comparing the iPhone to Android is like comparing the Mac experience to Windows. While they both have similar feature sets, the entire end-to-end experience is significantly more polished and user-friendly.

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But maybe that's the point. Windows won in the end (at least market share wise). I think the key for Google is to (a) work with phone providers to get the price point below the cheapest iPhone and (b) manage to copy enough of the iPhone interface to approximate the look and feel to someone comparing in the store (true elegance is only clear after using a iphone for a while).

No one would argue Windows 3.11 was as elegant as the MacOS but it had a mouse/icon based interface and sold for half the price.

(I actually made a blog post on this a year or so ago (http://www.tomstechblog.com/post/Android-vs-iPhone-Can-Googl...) if you have a couple minutes to spare)

Windows won in the end (at least market share wise).

When was the end?

"I have a T-Mobile G1. My girlfriend has an iPhone. There is just no comparison. Hands down, the iPhone is a better handset altogether in every imaginable way."

This is purely subjective.

I have a G1 and like it more than I've liked any iPhone I've used. Especially after the latest build release (donut!), which I've seen incredible stability and performance increases with.

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