I'm being forced into the Apple Sect ...

My company has switched to Apple phones (and me with them). I was actually very happy with my Windows 7.5 Phone. It was sleek, looked cool and was not exactly mainstream :-)

Now I'm the (happiness-wise undecided) owner of an iPhone 4S. And frankly I'm not impressed and have some difficulty grasping the almost religious approach to all things Apple. OK - from a User Experience point of view it works. Kinda. But, and there are a few of those, there really isn't anything special about it. Apart from the fact that they were first (which of course counts for something), and therefore has a head start into the app-market. This was where the Windows Phone fell through. If I was Microsoft, I'd spend 5 developers with only the job of cranking out cool apps for the Windows phone for the next year (they can just start with the most successfully ones on the iPhone and copy those!). Note to self: create next "killer-app" for Windows Mango and I don't have to work no more - this is an untapped market.

Microsoft's handling of contacts is way superior to Apples. Although the iPhone does a better job recognising phone numbers and generally is better at making the user interface context aware. And finally - Microsoft should either scratch the ridiculous Bing-thing for us Europeans (and everybody else not residing in the US). Especially the maps which are nice enough but doesn't have anything apart from telling me where I am to offer (searching for Pizza gave me the Italian city of Pisa?????).

The thing I miss most from my Windows phone, though, is the hold-finger on item to give me options (this equals a right click on a normal computer). Really useful and a gesture that's sorely needed in the iOS where I have to click an Edit button on the top of the screen. Also it baffles me why I have to scroll to the top of a list to be able to search it on the iPhone. Man, that sucks!

I like my iPhone - but I refuse to succumb to the pressure and become a preacher. They aren't better (anymore) - just different.