David Notik

I'm sure you've watched the recent exchanges. Jobs blasts Google and Android, and the debate about open versus closed (or fragmented and integrated, as Jobs would have it) continues.

I think this nicely nails it:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_technews/20101019/tc_yblog_technews/google...

It's almost a debate of capitalism versus socialism. And I think there are merits to both. :)

"I think it's going to be a challenge for them to create a competitive platform and to convince developers to create apps for yet a third software platform after iOS and Android," Jobs continued. "With 300,000 apps on Apple's App Store, RIM has a high mountain ahead of them to climb."

Comments like that will be fun to look back at in an I think inevitable future where all apps are web based, the entire user experience is in fact in the cloud, and comparisons are about hardware instead. The real question might be, who (Apple or Google) is leading the charge into that future? Leave a comment and opine.