Thats the money quote from my rant on the Apple v. Android class war, sparked by Instagram becoming available on Android. It went up on the Daily Beast this morning. You can read ithere.Add a Comment|SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "I already hated Instagram a nd the posers who use it, and now I just hate them even more

Josh Topolsky isunderwhelmed,and gripes that Windows Phone 7.5 still isnt where it should be. Walt Mossberg hassimilar reservations.Sam Biddle of Gizmodo thinks the Lumia 900could save Windows Phone.Rosa Golijan of MSNBC says its a stunner thatcould lure p eople away from Apple and Android.

Thats the biggest takeaway fromthis interviewthat Larry Page gave to my old pal Brad Stone of Bloomberg-Businessweek.I think the Android differences were actually for show. I think that served their interests. For a lot of companies, it’s useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that

Harry McCrackens article about IBMs introduction of the PS/2 and OS/2(here on the Techland blog)brought back a flood of memories. It was 25 years ago this week:On April 2, 1987, at twin press conferences in New York and Miami, IBM unveiled its plans to rei nvent the PC industry which it had jump-started less than six years earlier with the introduction of the first IBM PC

My good friend Barbara Darrow of GigaOm just posted an awesome rant about Gmail and other Google apps. (Hey, new-and-improved Google, please fix your apps.) This was prompted by a Marissa Mayer appearance where she said Larry Page is really focused on prod ucts and users, and really wants to streamline everything at Google

Farhad Manjoo makes some really good points inthis piece called Apple Doesnt Need to Make the TV of the Futurearguing that Xbox already does many of the things that people keep dreaming Apple might do with an Apple TV product sometime in the future. Things like voice commands and hand commands are already there with Xbox and Kinect, and if you havent used one yet, you should

A dear friend just sent a link tothis stunning analysiswhich compares the names of various condoms with the names of various Android phones, and finds a stunning overlap. Desire, Ultra Thin, Sensation, Indulge, Intensity, Wildfire you get the idea. Nice w ork. I would note that my beloved Droid Razr Maxx is not on the list, butprobably should be

Rovio, maker of Angry Birds, tellsBloombergit wont create a version of Angry Birds Space for Windows Phone, because the platform is so tiny. We want to be on all screens, but we have to consider the cost of supplying the smaller platforms, a Rovio guy says . I dont really give a crap about Angry Birds, but still: Ouch

If youve been there, you know: Its been around since 1950, and its not the swankiest place in the world. A lot of the rooms have just a sink, no bathroom. Theres even a dorm which is basically a big room with 12 bunks in it, inconveniently located directly above the (often very noisy) bar. The rooms are small, old-fashioned, and theres no TV, and the staff are mostly a bunch of kids who are there primarily for the free season pass

Im a couple weeks into the experiment and one thing that strikes me is that Im really not missing Android, which is odd because thats the adjustment I had expected to find the most difficult. There are lots of little things that I like about the Android so ftware. And in terms of hardware I really love the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx that Ive been using for the past few months