Found a nice blog post about why (in Norwegian):
Det er bedre med ett program i hånda, enn ti på taket
In short:
People are that stupid.
Now; don’t think I hate Steve’s phone. It is a sweet phone. And when the first one arrived the user interface was better than the rest, but it was no revolution. In my mind they just got to much credit for a ok phone.
And as of the date Desire and X10 got out, it is not even best on interface. A icon grid is not enough anymore.
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