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To me, it seems as if Palm is the first smartphone manufacturer to develop an interface from the ground up specifically for a mobile device, without windows, applications, or other desktop-centric ideas. Oh, and it does copy/paste.

This is not true, the iPhone is far to be a phone designed with a desktop centric idea, this is actually the total opposite. I mean, come one, nothing besides the windows makes it behave fundamentally like a desktop environment. And the Pre does not give away the idea of windows anyway, as cards are composed of different windows, either your devise works as the Pre or it works like the iPhone where Apple has chosed by purpose (like Eugenia pointed out) the single task/app approach. So it remains to be seen how the Palm's card approach works for the user and how having many cards can affect the battery life.

But again, Apple has clearly designed the iPhone's interface from the ground up for a portable devise, and i would say that Palm has taken the same way with its own ideas compared to other solutions like windows Mobile or Android which basically work a lot like the computer desktop. More on the side of Windows mobile than Android, but Android much more than the iPhone or the Pre.

While it's dangerous to make any such statements, I do believe that Palm has out-Appled Apple on this one: the iPhone already feels hopelessly kludgey and outdated.

Yes it is because you've just said non-sense. How the iPhone can be outdate when in a first place the Pre has obviously taken a lot of design and interface ideas from it?