> As business models go, there are currently two dominant ones: either people like your product enough to purchase it or they don’t care enough to buy it but will overlook its deficiencies if it’s “free” in exchange for their personal browsing and purchasing info sold to advertisers. The former model is Apple’s, the latter is Google’s.
via [counternotions.com](http://counternotions.com/2010/12/28/the-unbearable-inevitability-of-being-android-1995/)
Great article, as usual, from Counternotions. Amazing to me how few people understand this fundamental difference between Apple and Google. And how few understand that Google’s mimicking of Microsoft’s old, failing strategy is not a good long-term plan.
