Thats right!!!
thats why a vain mac user like me has been using macs for the past 15 years... those Mac IIsi sure were really really stylish machines... please! I have heard these spurious pro-windows arguments before. Apple, not always, but quite often integrates new technologies as a standard long before other companies do (take wifi for example). This stuff about Macs being underpowered and overpriced is for the most part unwarranted. Besides, I don't mind paying the premium price for the pleasure of using OSX anyday over a half-baked OS like windows or many linux desktops distros for that matter (sorry, flame on). Sure I prefer open source, but no one puts the amount of attention to detail that Apple does to its products.

That having been said, I don't particularly care for ipods and its navigation system, or what MP3s have done to my music listening experience.

I also see lots of shortcomings with the iphone. But I see some potential too.
I'm happy to finally have a smartphone that'll sync with OSX seamlessly (my Nokia e61 does not). Its also nice to have a email device that seems dependable that's not a crackberry. The 770 email client was really lacking in this respect. However the crappy iphone screen resolution will make my 770 still dance circles around it in terms of web surfing experience. Lack of 3g and gps are also big iphone detractors.

Also Apple's not successful at what they do because they are innovators. They are great at what they do, because of the obsessive attention to detail they put into their products. Nothing in the original 1984 Mac was all that new. Those ideas were recycled from Xerox PARC. And hardware-wise nothing in the iphone is all that new, but you can almost bet that the UI and the software will be well polished.

From most of your statements it seems that you are unfamiliar with Apple before the advent of the ipod and the second coming of steve jobs. Were you even born when the first mac came out in 1984. Did you have to deal with the hell that was DOS and OS2? Why don't you go back to trolling slashdot n00b.

I don't worship apple, but I know the contributions they've made over the years to computing, and at least I don't curse at my computer everyday like my coworkers who use windows.

flame on.