The importance of marketshare is generally for investors, whether it be through the stock market or developers investing in the platform. Both these groups should know that Apple is currently dominating the US market overall. To exclude the iPad is disingenuous at best.

I suspect we're also going to see the iPad become more functionally equivalent to a typical portable computer as well. They've already added printing - how many people thought that would be coming to iOS any time soon?

A number of other executive-types are lashing back at Steve Jobs today for his comments last night. The issue seems to be pretty clear. These guys just don't get it.

Andy Rubin is totally out to lunch if he thinks being able to download and compile Android means it's an open OS. Tell that one to consumers who want to simply uninstall some crapware their carrier put on their phone. The TweetDeck CEO says his developers haven't had a hard time at all with Android. Of course not, because if you close your eyes and ignore the inconsistent landscape and fragmentation out there you won't have a problem at all.

But just look at the devices, even from one manufacturer to see all the issues. Different screen resolutions, different aspect ratios, different screen sizes, completely different colour reproduction, different input methods, different OS versions, different set of stock software, different UI skins, different "other" hardware specs, inability of end-users to update OS, it's just inconsistent and fragmented.

If open means being able to download and compile the OS, then "open" will fail every time in the consumer space as history tells us.

The situation is most relevant to consumers and developers and when it all boils down, it is in fact most similar to what Steve mentioned, fragmented versus integrated, than it is to some ideological open/closed argument.