If you haven't seen it, Motorola launched the MPx100 at 3GSM and it's pretty great. For American and European markets, it has just about everything it needs to be a real competitor to the Nokia 6600 smartphone (which has sold over two million units since last October) and even the media-darling Treo 600. If you don't see the big tsunami of PR and marketing coming from the Northwest, let me clue you in to the spin: It's not about market share, or quality, it's about quantity of devices.

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Next year when Microsoft has significant market share [...], I'm going to be the guy just shaking my head and muttering to myself about how the disaster could've been averted.