> 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.…

> So this latest report, in which Gene apparently just polled the families living on his block, seems beyond disingenuous. The margin of error on a group of 65 people is so high that it makes the results of the iPad vs. Galaxy Tab study all but meaningless, and further demonstrates the insidious, dangerous power of some analysts and their fantasy football stock manipulations. The moral of the story? Next time you see the names Gene and Munster in the same sentence, don’t just take the news with a grain…

> By comparison, iPad is a PORTABLE device — you need a bag to carry it around — and it can act as a laptop replacement. > > Even though both tablets perform much of the same functions, similar to the truer equivalency between iPhone and an Android phone, their size differences and, by extension, how and how often they are accessed, means gTab and iPad will be used in completely different ways. > > I’ve been “wearing” gTab for nearly two weeks, and all comparisons boil down to this: gTab fits in your pocket. via…

> It really says something when some of your customers ask the Internet whether they got the right thing when they received your product, or whether it got switched out with some joke Chinese knockoff that’s not really supposed to work. > > The [Maylong M-150](http://www.maylonggroup.com/M-150_MID.htm) TabletPC is an Android-based device sold by Walgreens for a mere $99 a pop. The obvious purpose for this tablet’s existence is to appeal to bargain basement shoppers—grandmas, poor college kids, those on a tight budget—by…

Developers complain, not without merit, that the iTunes App Store is rigged toward low-priced apps. But the Android Market seems rigged toward no-price apps. Apple is making a high-profile foray into mobile advertising, yes, but it doesn’t seem to be displacing the market for paid apps. On Android, on the other hand, advertising seems to be the only way for developers to generate significant revenue. Paid Android apps don’t seem to sell well. Are ads a good revenue model for mobile games? via daringfireball.net Very good piece…