Steve Jobs being way too kind to Android 3.0 Honeycomb.

If it's true that you're not really buying a tablet but an ecosystem, then what is it exactly that would convince a consumer to select a Honeycomb tablet instead of an iPad?

Number of native iPad apps in Apple's App Store = over 65,000.

Number of native apps that Steve Jobs credited for Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets = up to 100.

Actual count (according to Justin Williams) = approx. 17.

One thing has become quite obvious -- iOS has become the premiere development platform in the mobile space. 

Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer hypes Windows 7-based slates, makes no mention of HP when touting partners.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/idCNN1217743120100712?rpc=44

At Microsoft's annual partner conference in Washington, D.C. today, CEO Steve Balmer stressed that Windows 7-based "slate" devices are one of the most important things that his company will do this year. According to the Reuters article credited above:

“This year, one of the most important things that we will do in the smart device category is really push forward with Windows 7-based slates,” said Ballmer. “This is a terribly important area for us.”

He then went on to list the partners who have plans to release Windows 7-based tablet devices this year, mentioning Acer Inc, Dell Inc, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, Toshiba Corp, Sony Corp and several other PC makers. But he failed to mention Microsoft's largest partner by far -- HP. Was this an unlikely oversight, or could it be that HP has elected to pass on using a desktop OS from Microsoft and instead has chosen to pursue tablets running their recently acquired WebOS? For years, tablets running a desktop OS have failed to attract customers beyond a small niche group. This has been primarily due to the fact that a desktop OS is not ideally suited for a touch interface.

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100-year-old iGranny loves her iPad!

Kudos to Macenstein for the link.