Originally Posted by Relentless

Lets agree to your labeling. The handset war is basically finished. Other than battery life most people are generally happy with any of the major handsets on the market.

The only way anyone breaks the iphone strangle-hold on a large percentage of the premium market is to create the ecosystem to support it. Android marketplaces and what Windows Phones offer do not match up. If I were Samsung, Google, MS or others I'd announce 'your phone is already good enough - now look at the incredibly easy interface we have invested in to bring content to your phone cheaper, easier, faster and in higher quality than the iphone'. That would do a lot more for them than adding a heart rate monitor to the galaxy or dropping the price point on other handsets.

As soon as people could get their email and browse easily without AOL, AOL fell off a cliff. The same will happen with iphones and the appstore... but not until someone builds a countervailing ecosystem.