> You could even argue the delay is what let Apple win. Apple won because of superior design and engineering. It became glaringly obvious when BlackBerry relea

> You could even argue the delay is what let Apple win. Apple won because of superior design and engineering. It became glaringly obvious when BlackBerry released the Storm one month or so before or after Apple released the iPhone 3G (and the App Store). I remember thinking it was a prototype when someone showed a Storm to me. Scrolling was janky, the whole phone was sluggish and slow and the keyboard barely worked. Blackberry couldn't even figure out how to get Wifi on the thing, so it was stuck using cellular while my iPhone was just streaming video. And of course, no apps. It was 2 years behind the original iPhone and shipped two years later.