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Wow. Just wow.

This is article is so riddled with misunderstandings of the market and absolute contradictions with what has and is actually happening in said market. An example here.

"These forces are self-reinforcing. The more apps, the more users. The more users, the more apps."

I love my apps as an Android and and iOS user. I get two very different experiences from the two devices however. There is a certain type of app and utility that I feel I can get from my Motorola DROID that I don't get from my iPhone and vise versa. I find that I use apps on my iPhone that are very user friendly and aesthetically pleasing, but don't do exactly or everything that I would like them to do. My DROID provides me with a lot more effective apps for my purposes, but are often less well put together and need a little additional digging to tweak everything just right.

Also, this statement is both statistically and factually incorrect. To my understanding the iOS system has the most available apps to it users. So, by this editors thought process they should have the most users. In reality they are in third having nearly half the market share of both Android and Symbian and having only two percent more than RIM. I understand that that is the smartphone market, but I for one have a hard time not seeing a very close relation between trends in the smartphone market and the Tablet market and would think it foolish for this author not to take the same into consideration. Most of are tablets seem to be merely larger version of our smartphones.

I think it is foolish for any one person or even group of people to declare a winner in the tablet market when it is still so young. Do I think the iPad is the best tablet for the majority of those people in the market to buy such a product? Yes. Do I want one? No. Would I at least present the opposition to any of those who come to me looking for a suggestion? Yes.

I for one am excited to see what this tablet market brings. Including what HP Palm has to offer as well as Nokia and any of the other smaller companies looking to grab some space in this market (Notion Ink?).

I'm just glad to see that I'm not the only one who thinks this guy is crazy

"This is not a zero sum game."

If only the majority of the tech press felt the same way. I am so tired of the "___ killer" argument that seems be inserted into every product review. It's just lazy analysis if you ask me.