>>>but I have to admit, that was REALLY funny
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>It was funny- except that MS's failure actually is pretty sad, wrapping Nokia into the downward spiral and not learning from the Blackberry implosion. The market outcome is a single General Motors option for Joe Average (Android) with a Mercedes option (iOS) for those who value brand, with the only other option being the Edsel. Cozy duopoly may be OK for Google and Apple but by definition is not good for we consumers. Google feels its power and already is pushing hard on privacy IMHO and is losing/has lost its adolescent geeky look in favor of age-old Corporate self-protectionism. The problem now is that it's not easy to vote with your feet, especially when you're on a 2-year contract and the telephony supplier chooses the phone. So here we go again.

Hmm....well, not easy to vote with your feet when the phone is 600 bucks and nobody wants used ones :)

And you forgot about the fail phone (whoops! I meant the fire phone....darn that auto-correct)

I can't read your mind, but hopefully you can acknowledge that someone might read your post and conclude that deep down you like the iPhone and want to make excuses for not using the others. Just my 2 cents.

But hey - I'm unapologetically an iPhone/iPad fan boy. I love them far more than Android.