The Macalope Weekly: Zombie arguments

09.04.2011
Macworld

That's right, the "Android versus iOS is Windows versus the Mac all over again!" argument is back! It's the zombie argument that won't die! It keeps coming back to eat your brain! After trying to beat it to death with a baseball bat (we must have forgotten ), we'll take a look at how the RIM PlayBook is doing. And we'll laugh. Ohhh, how we'll laugh. Finally, the Macalope refuses to talk about that person again this week! You know the one!

Another week, another piece about . This time, it's thanks to the fact that Android's market share increased by 7 percent in the three months ending in February, while iOS's only went up 0.2 percent. Take it away, Business Insider's Henry Blodget!

Are Apple bulls right that Apple has an insurmountable hold on the "premium" segment of the market and that it doesn't matter who has the other 75%?

Are the fanatical religious zealots--who'd buy a box full of deer ticks and put them in their ears if Steve Jobs told them to--right that it's profit that companies run off of instead of market share? It's a puzzler!