Before I had an iPhone, there wasn’t anything comparable except maybe Windows Mobile. To be honest I owned quite a few and back in the days I even used to blog about the OS.
Then one day, the iPhone came into my life, it was love, yes real love at first sight. Many business features were still missing like syncing with the exchange server or editing attachements or office documents. No appstore either back then. I wrote a 2 pages article for the Wort with the pros and cons from a geeks point of view. Back then it became my secondary phone along with my HTC P3600 as primary business phone.
Many people, including my boss asked me what I thought about it. Is it just a toy, a good multimedia device with a phone or is there more?

Back then I predicted (mostly because the few things the iPhone did, it did them great, like the user interface) that in less then 4 years we will be selling only iPhones, and that I had a bad feeling about Windows Mobile.

I gave up my former blog. It became difficult to write once the faith was gone.
Why am I telling you all this? because Windows Mobile just got two major uppercuts in the chin and several in the guts:
1. iMate (a name in the Windows Mobile scene that used to re-brand HTC devices) filled for bankruptcy
2. Palm (that used to have many Windows Mobile devices in their lineup like the Treos) dumped Windows Mobile for good.
3. Although HTC (major Windows Mobile partner) is still producing some Windows Mobile devices it has obviously choosen the Android path, just like Samsung, Motorola and Sony Ericsson with their Xperia 2.
Even if an update to windows mobile 6.5 is just around the corner, I doubt they will ever make it back on track.