[evgen]

And one day someone outside of the Apple campus is going to wake up and realize that a big bag of features is no longer enough; you have to combine them all into a seamless environment so that people[1] can actually take advantage of the cute bits of electronics you stuff into ever smaller packages.

[1] By "people" I mean the 99.999% of the world who do not bother to read instruction manuals, would never use a command-line interface, and once had vcrs whose clocks always read 12:00...

[barrkel]

With an Android phone you don't even need a PC (or Mac), unlike Apple's stuff.

[danudey]

With an iPhone or iPad, you can have it activated when you purchase it, buy music or apps wirelessly, add contacts, sync to MobileMe/Google/exchange, and do pretty much whatever you like.

I only connect my phone to my computer to do backups (because I don't want to lose my text messages), or to update apps >20MB (because I'm never on WiFi). You don't have to have a computer at all to use an iPhone. In fact, I have a friend who'd never sync'ed or backed up her iPhone once (and didn't know how to do it), and she used it without issues for well over a year before needing to do a backup.

I've never used Android, so I'm not sure what music store is available on the phone by default. Is it any good?