Let’s say that when the dust starts to settle in this market, Android winds up with far fewer total apps than iPhone OS, but they’re of generally higher quality. That would make Android the Mac to the iPhone’s Windows. I would switch to that platform.

I agree with this sentiment 100%. However, if the Twitter apps for Android or the Palm Pre are any indication, the iPhone applications are as polished as the applications I have come to love on the Mac.

Bad move, Hulu. I currently get all of the major networks and many of the smaller networks over-the-air in HD for free. I can watch The Office, 30 Rock, or The Simpsons without shelling out one dime. Why would I pay for this service? Watching TV shows while sitting in front of my computer and not from the comfort of my couch on my big-screen TV is not what I would consider a convenience.

This is the problem with so many services that go online. They believe the only way to make money is for users to subscribe to their service. I worked for both newspapers and magazines in my career and the truth was that the subscription dollars they received each month were a pittance compared with the advertising revenue. And they often had promotions where they would give their publications away for free because they knew that higher circulation meant more money they could charge advertisers. But somehow when they go online this model suddenly goes out the window and it “needs to evolve to have a meaningful subscription model as part of its business.”

Bullshit. I’ll get my content elsewhere.

(via @jluciano)

I started reading this very long article and thought it was interesting. Interesting in that I never even considered not vaccinating my child against preventable diseases. The thought that went through my mind when we got his vaccinations went something like this: “Maybe this has caused autism in some kids, maybe it hasn’t, I don’t know. But I know no one has died of the mumps since getting vaccinated. And I’m not a doctor.” Call me a damn fool.

What’s crazy, if not downright scary, are the comments on the article. People laying claim to being educated to the fact that we are being lied to. I want to stop at the word ‘educate’ for a second though. How educated do you feel you really are? Have you studied science and medicine for the better part of a decade in your education? Was your educational resource as prestigious as the universities and institutions where many of these studies are performed? How many internet articles and Jenny McCarthy Oprah visits does it take to bring your education up to the level where this can be a discussion?

I don’t want my son to die. And how heart broken would I be if my son died from a preventable disease because Jim Carrey made me believe that vaccinations would cause autism in my son? I would be suicidal if that happened. In life, there are times when you are forced to trust others and their education. I am not a doctor, nor am I educated in science or medicine. I can ask for second opinions and attempt to make educated decisions based on what I hear. But in the end I have to trust that the doctors that gave me opinion A or B or C are there to help me.

(via Clever Simon)

Like @dcurtis said, “NEWS FLASH! Making fantastic products and selling them for more than they cost to produce leads to profit.”

True. True.