[Touch HD General] eaglesteve:
Nokia is doing the right thing. HTC should learn from both Nokia and iPhone to not abandon their customer after the phone is sold.

I never let price be a factor in my choice of phone. Remember that I bought my HD knowing that iPhone was cheaper? (If you had following my postings in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=443900 )

No, it is not because iPhone is cheaper that I said it is a better investment. It it more because of the fact that Apple does not abandon their customer, but would keep coming back to them with new firmwares and updates which expands the functionalities and remove bugs

It depends on how you choose to look at this. For me, both platforms at the moment requires third party software solutions to fully meet user requirements. With winmo, I always have to put in Wktask, tweak to show time on every window, install Resco file explorer to have an acceptable finger friendly file manager, Coreplayer to play video, own VOIP software to make cheap calls, HiCalc for stuffs like unit conversions, G-Alarm for morning calls, SoftMakers for office applications, Audio Notes for call recording, Cash Organiser for expense tracking, GH and a few more reader for reading books, Group SMS to send the same SMS to my Golfing mates to tell them I'll be sleeping in and skip that day's golf, MoBlue to overcome the bugs in bluetooth file transfer, Lexisgoo for dictionary, PocketScreen to capture screen, etc etc.

Not really a big deal to use third party solution to fill the missing functions. So what if we jailbreak to do video recording, forward SMS, have MMS, have some cut and copy functions, etc. It's really so effortless and easy.

The more important thing is to be able to find good third party software to do it.

Your deduction on why I like iPhone now is wrong, I'm afraid. More beautiful yes, but that is a small and one of the many reasons.

For me, the speed and responsiveness do play a part.

One of the key reasons I like iPhone now is that I find the third party software to be better in iPhone than winmo - a point which is surely going to attract controversy. I have compared software from the same vendors on both platform, including HiCalc, Lexisgoo, and can honestly tell you that the iPhone version is far better than the winmo version. Most of the tasks which are done in both platform are done better in iPhone. However, winmo still wins when it comes to GPS navigation and Office applications in terms of functions and features. In most other areas (such as youtube download, calculators, dictionaries, financial applications, document readers, investment monitoring, banking applications, password wallets applications, pictures viewers, video players, music players, browsers, emails, calendar, contacts management, VOIP clients, Group Mailing, weather applications, location-based applications, etc) iPhone wins in terms of functions and features.

I used to say that iPhone is like a sexy women who can't do housework and winmo is a plain Jane who can do anything. I no longer think of iPhone as just being pretty. Yes, there are glaring holes in GPS navigation area still. In most other application areas however, I actually think that this sexy women is the more capable worker now. Having said that, I still detest not being able to swap in a spare battery during the day. I'm such a heavy user, and find having to always bring along a charger a big negative against iPhone. This is not helped by the fact that in my car, I'm using the car charger for my HD runninng TomTom so I can't be charging my iPhone simultaneously. Perhaps I have to buy a splitter to be able to charge both at the same time.