while I agree with you assessment, isn't the smart phone battle presented as between "iPhone" and "Android" in almost every comparison, including (especially by) Android fans?
As an Android fan I don't even know if the iPhone still exists. It can't run any software I need and won't work with the infrastructure I have setup, so its existence is meaningless. Except, perhaps, that it will lower the price of nice 3" screens.
Really, my eye is on the Next Cool Android Phone instead, because I can buy one and I won't have to make any compromises.
I think that was FraaJad's point; you probably don't care about the next HTC Android phone but the next Android phone regardless of vendor. While the iPhone gets one new model per year, there are three or four Next Cool Android Phones per year. Thus the original article isn't a troll; it reflects the way Android users actually think.
