[ebbv]

> iOS was more of a copy of palm

Bullshit. I used tons of Palm devices and iOS has basically nothing in common with PalmOS.

The only thing in common between the initial iPhone and a Palm device is that they have a large touch screen.

[ceejayoz]

Palm's application launcher was very similar to the iOS Springboard.

[Groxx]

"very similar" -> "nearly identical", especially on the first iPhone version before there were multiple pages of apps. At least it was on mine.

The difference was the quality of the apps and hardware. The screen was gorgeous, it had horsepower for web-surfing and youtube, it had multitouch and used it reasonably well, and it cost about the same as a decent Palm since it came with a service agreement.