I know, you’re sick of reading about a telephone that isn’t even available in Canada. Or you have no idea what I’m talking about.

After enjoying a long and pointless conversation with a good friend who is intimately involved with the mobile telephony business (he’s an iPhone skeptic; at one point he sent me a photo of his business partner picking his nose; I think he was doing this to illustrate the camera in his Blackberry Curve…), I finally found the One True Quote regarding der iPhone:

My old phone, one based on Windows Mobile 5.0, had almost every feature the iPhone has – point by point. The differences between the products (like the differences between their desktop cousins) have to do with how functionality is exposed to the user. In this matter, you’ll find that Apple’s product is almost infuriatingly superior.

Hey you kids in school: UI matters.