>Who in the blue hell wants to go toe to toe with Apple on hardware? Having owned 3 different iPhones, I can assure you there are other phones with better desi

>Who in the blue hell wants to go toe to toe with Apple on hardware? Having owned 3 different iPhones, I can assure you there are other phones with better design and build quality. Not to mention phones with bigger screens. I know several people who want their iPhone bigger, smaller, with a removable battery, with a USB, with micro SD, etc... There's plenty of ways to differentiate on hardware since Apple only offers one option. Also, no OEMs have abandoned their Win8 tablet development since MS announced the Surface. I'm not sure why WP8 would be so different.