I'm really not sure about the iPhone and the iPad being comparable products. The iPad (and other tablets) needs apps. Without apps, it's a very expensive web b

I'm really not sure about the iPhone and the iPad being comparable products. The iPad (and other tablets) needs apps. Without apps, it's a very expensive web browser. Yet, as much as the tech world has complained about the closed nature of the App STore, we are still seeing most of app innovation occuring in Apple's marketplace. Just to clarify that last statement, it is true that there are a few small classes of applications that Apple's terms and conditions make impossible to implement on an iOS device. But in my opinion, these types of apps make up only about 10% of all possible apps (I just made that number up, but call it an educated guess based on a test I tried out about a year ago, where I sat down and tossed out a bunch of ideas for apps - about 90% were acceptable to App Store rules), and for the rest of the market, we constantly see apps first on the Apps Store and only afterwards do we see them in the Google Marketplace, if at all. I'm not seeing any signs of that trend changing, which means that Apple is going to remain software king-of-the-hill for quite some time, and that does not auger well for the success of Android tablets.