**As published in RCR Wireless News**

SANTA MONICA, CALIF. – For all the momentum Google’s Android operating system is enjoying of late, there are some key areas that many executives believe Apple has it beat on with the iPhone OS. These differentiating features – billing, user interface, development ease and scale (for at least the time being) — are nothing to scoff at either.

Now, with the iPad already surpassing 1 million units sold in as many months, there’s a reinvigorated sense of interest and easy-to-understand business reasons for placing more focus and investment in Apple’s mobile flavor.

A crowded panel of eight representing big media and publishers at Digital Hollywood yesterday spent considerable time heaping praise and wonder on Apple’s latest gadget. Later on, the OS offerings from BlackBerry, Google, Microsoft and HP-Palm got their fair shake, but Apple kept cropping up as the main draw. Read more

**As published in RCR Wireless News**

HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. – Throughout the LA Games Conference, two names kept resurfacing whenever the topic of mobile was broached – iPad and Android.

It should come as no surprise why the iPad is almost universally seen as an opportunity for game makers. Just look at the prices developers are charging for apps on the iPad and compare that to the so-called sweet spot app price of 99 cents on the iPhone.

From the tone of at least a few developers represented at the annual conference, the iPhone may be left behind as the path to greater profits per app gains momentum on Apple’s latest gadget. Read more

Although I hate to admit it and try to cover my tracks as much as possible, I probably belong in the Apple fanboy camp — at least one of the lower echelons of fanboydom. I’ve owned all three generations of the iPhone. I’ve returned them, exchanged them, passed them on and even sold them when my relationship with each of them reached an anticlimactic end. I waited in line at multiple stores for the iPhone 3G launch in summer 2008. I know, it’s a problem.

But after following Apple’s news about it’s “latest creation,” the iPad, I think I’m finally on the road to recovery. Sure, I wish I was in San Francisco for the announcement on Wednesday, just as I was for a few previous Apple press events, but now that I know more about the iPad I’m not convinced I missed much of anything.

Apple will undoubtedly sell more of its latest gadget than just about anyone predicts in the short run, but I’m not sure we’ll reach a point where all of our friends have one or wish they had one in the long run. Read more