You've obviosuly never actually used the touch HD.
As for WM vrs iPhone applications, what am i trying to deny?
Then size and feal, even a college of mine who loves his iPhone has to admit the touch feals better, its got that less wasted space because they couldn't fit the stuff in fealing. The touch HD weighs an extra 10g. Worth it for the extra battery life? Size look at the screen and the resolution, web browsing is preferable on the HD, but i've yet to spend enough time with the 3gs to see if the speed really compensates for the lower resolution, and worse experiance.
Been able to flick out a stylus is very useful for 'serious' i'm stuck in terminal 5 for an extra 2 hours browsing (and having a phone that has the battery life for such a task

. But at the same time having the touch interface done well enough so that you don't need to resort to complex gestures, a double tap snapping to a div works really well on 90%+ of the websites i read. The way it works on beeb news for instance is just perfect.
I'd like to get a little try with the Pre, might make it my new 'work' phone, seeing as the storm was so useless I gave it back after less than 2 weeks.
Also i'd really like to know which features HTC have copied?
They had been replacing chunks of the WM shell before the iphone came out. The only thing i can think of is the 'slide to awnser' thing, and
tbh have ignore the other way is a good refinment.