Look, don't take any single comparison too seriously. Because . Market share is only an indicator. What matters is not being marginalized to the point where you don't get developer attention--and it hardly seems like that's going to happen to iOS any time soon. Quite the contrary.

Of course none of this will stop Blodget and the rest from continuing to make the same zombie argument.

The Macalope hates making predictions. He's not very good at them because, well, they're hard. The technology industry has a lot of moving parts. OK, fewer now that solid state drives are gaining popularity, but you know what he means.

That's why he's relieved to see that one of his predictions for 2011----has already come to fruition.