Iphone iOS4 vs maemo. Maemo still has a better, or much better web experience, and I'm not talking about flash (that it is a point, sure, but without it I would say the same).

However, indeed the maemo and the iOS4 are two systems though for different markets, that I would say compatibles. As a mobile, the iOS4 is fast, with the best display (iphone 4, not the 3gs), and provides key software, for instance maps. As a computer, the iOS4 fails. You need to follow the rules of apple, very difficult to handle files transfer as an example of how can the simplest thing be the more stupidly annoying thing. This is acceptable on a mobile, since you "use" the mobile not longer than 5-min sessions. But if you want to work for longer times, the iphone becomes frustrating.

Useless to say to somebody that uses the phone as a phone, of course. All things you say him to do, he'll answer he doesn't need them. And all things he says you to do, you'll see that the iphone does them better.

So, the best you can do, is to tell him you can use an entire linux there, openoffice, jdownloader, gimp, java, ... he can say it is useless in a mobile, but then you smile and answers, yes, the ferrari also has too many horses ...