My iPhone seems to not register my input about one in every 5 times. It's become automatic and I don't even think about having to press again. I've watched other people using theirs and have noticed a similar rate of pressing again when an app doesn't open in response to the first press. Of course people don't seem to notice they're doing this, but it seems to happen a lot. Particularly in environments with higher humidity it seems capacitive screens are less accurate.

I've never seen a resistive touch screen fail to register a press with a stylus, ever. With fingers they can fail to register particularly if people aren't used to actually pressing.

5 million? I'd say 1 million tops. Until the fairly recent Hero none of them were really up to par anyway, you had to buy one because you wanted Android, not because you are the sort of impulse buyer Apple targets.

I can't even get a Hero that will work on my 3.5G network here.

"think different" to every normal human being.

Can you imagine if Microsoft banned rival browsers and media players from Windows due to 'duplicate functionality'.

Apple are quietly praying their market share remains tiny but noisy and profitable.

This move should be illegal, if Microsoft was to do something like this, they would be hauled before the courts and fined hundreds of millions of dollars in both the EU and US.

Good thing there aren't as many free and useful apps for the iPhone, or Apple wouldn't have clocked up 1.5 billion acts of idiocy.

Rules for this are obviously not very restrictive at all, considering if you write any one of those apps you can just distribute it outside of the marketplace, and users don't have to break their compatibility with future patches just to install their own apps.

Why come up with original ideas when companies like Apple are proving time and time again, stealing others ideas and forcing them onto your willing consumers is infinitely more profitable?

We'll ignore all the thousands of original ideas MS have had, because they're no where near as good at making original ideas profitable as others are at making stolen ideas profitable.

Never mind that there was a serious problem for MS if they moved into this area like Apple has first, they would have faced EU and US anti-competition lawsuits. As a result, they have to come up with the more original idea of not forcing their customers to only download applications from their store.

Anyway, don't trip over surface or project natal on your way out.

Next people will be suggesting the iPhone 3GS 32GB black and 32GB white are different versions, and the 16GB 3GS, completely different.

All the versions of Windows 7 are in fact, Windows 7. And you can run the same applications as you do on Vista and XP, which are more or less the same thing as far as developers are concerned.

If you could run all the same Flash/Silverlight apps on your windows mobile, android or symbian OS, the OS would be largely irrelevant. Personally I was looking forward to the day we could write apps once, not having to write them in Java, Objective C, Flash, Silverlight, etc separately.

You've got to hand it to Apple, it doesn't take them long after a competitor actually demonstrates a technology for them to put in an application to patent it.

Exactly, the reason this 'innovation' didn't come from Microsoft first is because if it did they would be already paying out hundreds of millions of dollars to the EU and US courts. No one seems to care that Apple is behaving like an anti-competitive monopoly while their market share is tiny.

What sort of phone requires unofficial hacks just so you can bypass their restrictive app store? Can you imagine the outrage if Microsoft did this ? They'd be before the EU and US courts within a week.