Again, nobody is suggesting a clone, and nobody is arguing Apple is some kind of magic inventor who we need to follow. All what is said is that we can learn from competitors, with examples. For example, I mentioned how I liked that the iPhone v1, while not having a GPS, was actually quite usable for navigation using Skyhook Wireless + WiFi (quite frankly it beated the **** out of my N810 with internal GPS and I wasn't happy with that). I named examples of the iPhone (or Mac) paradigm I like, and suggest to consider. Some of which are already being added in Fremantle, BTW. What examples, besides cellphone, you don't like about iPhone? Do you realize HS*PA would be data only; not for phone calls? Also, a slick interface doesn't mean you won't have power with e.g. console; in MacOS X you can configure the OS using the command line. Why wouldn't this be possible in Linux like Ubuntu or Maemo? Are you aware of projects which try to uniform things like /etc configuration files? Freedesktop.org projects? Also abstraction, and its a Good Thing indeed.