What happens when you do something right?

For all the chat the iPhone is getting at the moment I am not going to buy one. I think the interface does a lot right, but at the moment not enough to justify the price tag, IMHO. I have also got used to all the bells and whistles with my phone, that this just doesn't seem to have yet (read the Ars Technica review here: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/iphone-review.ars).

But they have done something right to justify the hype: the multi-touch interface is an enormous step forward, and here's the proof: everyone is trying to copy it...

The OS phone: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973
The MP3 player: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/07/italian-pmp-wit.html
The Windows mobile: http://www.tech.co.uk/gadgets/phones/[...]698151920