Drewski

Now I’m not a very big Apple fan, at all. I’m generally vocal about hating the iPhone (and Apple) because of their unabashed and irrevocable proprietary lock-in, but using a BlackBerry is no better (and a lot less useful) and at the end of the day, we really haven’t seen a good open-source PDA yet.

Now I’ve been increasingly disappointed with my BlackBerry lately, and there have been a number of “BlackBerry versus iPhone” reviews. Cue the inner turmoil.

John Gruber particularly nails the subject. 

It remains to be seen how well these new iPhone features will actually work, but if the answer is “as well as promised”, and if the iPhone’s Mail app is improved in ways targeting people who receive a high number of messages, it’s hard to see a single software advantage in the BlackBerry’s favor.

I have to say that’s almost the case currently, speaking as a non-enterprise consumer; really, I could do everything equally as well or, in the case of numerous and increasing web sites, better on the iPhone.

If a two-years-away 2010 iPhone might be like having a 2003 PowerBook G4 in your pocket, for RIM’s sake a 2010 BlackBerry had better be something more than a BlackBerry with a brighter screen.

The BlackBerry 9000 is pitiful. It looks so much like a current device, except for the addition of using an optical trackball to move a tiny mouse cursor to navigate web sites. (Watch how tedious it is to select a link around 3:00.) If the internet is the future, the iPhone gets it by making the web experience second-to-none. I don’t want to like it, but seriously, I’m almost talking myself into it right here.

(via Zach)