I keep playing with the iPhone when I get a chance and in particular I look at the apps (have already seen the sleek UI and the finger scrolling and all that - its old hat now).

While a typical iPhone has say 2 pages (screens) of apps, maybe one page of apps is all bull - the screensaver app, the hot girl app, the iFart, the fish in the water with sound effects app etc etc.

But the productive apps that are there - seem to be pretty functional and complete in nature - which is something that is missing from the NIT apps (except the star apps).

To the user this is what matters most - as much as the openness of the device.
What good is an open device to a non-programmer user if the user-end applications are missing ?