It doesn't look anything special to me, and I much prefer my current OS of Windows Phone, with it's slick metro interface.
Having been an Apple 'fanatic' for years, I changed my tune late last year, primarily because of the death of Steve Jobs, and the release of the iPhone 4S.
I remember having a Macbook in 2004, when they were a rare entity. I then had a Macbook Pro and finally switched to an iMac. I jumped on the iPhone bandwagon when the 3GS came out, then I had the iPhone 4. I even begain iOS app development, and had some popular apps - 'Word File' and 'Fact File' and also 'Recreational Grief'. Late last year I sold my iMac and iPhone and switched to a windows laptop and windows phone (Nokia Lumia 800)!
Apple make beautiful products, and products that bode well for people in the areas of graphic design, music and video production, but my opinion is that they have stagnated in terms of innovation since last year, and I was so saddened by the death of Jobs, coupled with the fact that the 4S was such a let-down to me, that I jumped ship.
The Lumia is a beautifully-designed phone - which for me has become such an important aspect to phones - now that they all come as standard with high-end chips, memory and processing capacity. The metro UI of the windows phone OS is also a very slick and appealing interface to me. I opted not to get the 4S, the most obvious reason being that it is an outdated design (3 years old).
I will be interested to see what the new iPhone 5 will look like, and will Apple be able to 'innovate' in order to make it appealing enough to buy. For now, I will stick with Windows, until Apple regains it's momentum of old and starts innovating once again rather than lagging behind (which is what it is doing right now in the phone market, hint: think Samsung Galaxy S3 or HTC One X).
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