Pre And iPhone

For the last month or so there is a small battle going on between Palm Pre and the famous Apple iPhone.
People in both forums (Pre & iPhone) are arguing who has the best smart phone. Excuse me people but what are you comparing here exactly? iPhone is out for 2+ yrs while the Pre is just over 1 month, iPhone version 3.0 and Pre 1.1, this is not logical to compare these 2 phones, makes no sense. I don’t see iPhone followers competing against RIM(BlackBerry) well maybe they tried with the BlackBerry Storm that was a short lived battle, Strom was all a over blown hype. iPhone “vs.” Android G1 another waste of time, G1 crumbled and maybe Android “Hero” will have a fighting chance against iPhone but I doubt it, for some reason G1 phones didn’t make a huge splash like ever one thought they do , why I honestly don’t know, but that’s another topic for another day. And now you got Palm Pre comes along and people see this little smart phone as a better competitor it the iPhone, this I don’t know yet cause Pre is on version 1.1 give it some time. This reminds me of a little story; my friend had a T-Mobile BlackBerry which I got him hooked on and he would rave how this is the best thing that ever happened to him, and now he jumped ship after I got my Pre. He got himself a unlocked iPhone, so when I saw him the first thing he said to me is not look at what my iPhone can do but check all my great APPS and I said ok that’s great but can your phone do this or that? He was like duh?? No he said it can’t, I said case closed, his comeback was I have all these great APPS, I said enjoy them. I told he doesn’t even have a GChat app, he has to sign in to GChat threw the web but he can’t chat to me and do other things, he like oh crap. The question is do we get phones for their APPS or there functions?
What’s your opinion??