Please iPad, Don't Hurt 'Em

Devin Coldewey:

It’s not entirely fair, of course, to compare a fragmented and developing ecosystem like Android tablets to the world leader, the iPad.

This kind of stuff drives me nuts. Android gets a free pass for sucking because, well it's hard to compete with the establishment. Like iPhone did? iPhone came out in 2007, it wasn't available globally until 2008 and it was an instant hit and crushed the mighty, market leading Blackberry, and Nokia. Just like the iPod at $399 in 2001 was the defacto mp3 player within 3 years. Not successful, but the standard. No one gets a free pass.

(Via Daring Fireball)