@rayblasdel: What move? People can still buy Kindle content through the web, bypassing Apple entirely.

@mno.net: Ha, ask writers and publishers how they feel about Google.

@1 Inch Punch: It's no surprise, after all Android teaches us it's easier to copy than to innovate.

@Vesta: Didn't you know? There are almost 300,000 fart apps, he's just getting started!

I think the key difference between the two campaigns is that the Mac in 1984 really was a revolutionary device utterly unlike IBM PCs at the time, while the Xoom is just a clone of the iPad.

@AimAtTheFace: Huh?

@Saturn666: It's disappointing that the modern nerd is as trendy as the trendy people they mock.

Who says Apple will take a 30% cut of the in-app purchases for say Kindle books? Why would Amazon continue to offer the Kindle app for iOS if it could only lose money by doing so? Apple's not stupid.

It seems more like Motorola is the problem here, as I recall from a recent Giz chart of Android version availability HTC was much better in this regard, while Samsung was even worse.

@Odin: Google will continue to out-pace iOS in the race to make these "mobile OSes" desktop-grade, for the simple reason that Apple already has a well-established desktop business, and Google has none.

@Odin: I understand, and yet the rest of us are here discussing apps anyway.

@HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: Yes, Honeycomb will run existing smartphone software. Take a look at apps made specifically for the iPad versus their iPhone counterparts to see why dedicated tablet apps need to be taken into consideration.

@HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: "Appeal to popularity"? The apps I listed are fantastic completely irrespective of their sales, and I never claimed otherwise.

@HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: Yes but did you? Or do you figure people are ditching their Xboxes and Playstations to play 25 year old NES games?

@Odin: The app ecosystems are a vital part of these platforms, and discussing their relative merits without including apps is pointless, especially when discussing a brand new platform like Honeycomb which has virtually zero native apps.

@talkingstove: The only reason these apps are "exclusive" is that they don't exist on Android, it's not like the developers signed some exclusivity agreement with Apple.

@HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: quantity != quality

@HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: Why should you care about those apps? Because they're the kind of apps that are leading the way in the mobile space, the kind of apps that are so good they cause people to choose iOS over Android, in the same way people choose Windows or OS X so they can get Excel and Photoshop.

@Chris Moran: Yes, I and 100m+ others like me are fools for enjoying all that our devices have to offer.

@HeartBurnKid: Well try the apps I listed above and see what I mean.