I think I'm still digesting this post, which probably does as good a job as can be done making an argument that the iPad (or probably, more to the point - products like it) represent a threat to Windows. In my comments I was about the price point vs the product recieved and was pretty adamant about the iPad costing too much while providing comparitively very little functionality. Not to say that it it won't have some great niche legs - but rather I just can't see it getting mass iPod like adoption, thus isn't going to supplant the Windows desktop/laptop anytime soon.

And then I found this:

It's a quick graph of Android activations from the Google I/O conference. The rise is obviously pretty meteoric, and thus suspect - but if true I would think this should be pretty scary to Windows. I think the thing is, people want to integrate their digital lives across multiple devices for multiple purposes. Also, people are lazy and - for the most part - computer stupid. Android/Chrome - both have the very real potential to bring that to life. Just get the hardware in the guy's house - let google handle the integration. Android as the model - getting the integration done is as easy as punching in your google name and password. Fantastic.

It would be a total pipe dream - but for the fact that Android apparently is getting a pretty nice sized user base of people who - more or less - will be more likely to be predisposed to buying a Chrome based desktop/laptop.

So I wonder if Apple is going for much the same thing in much the same way: sell the mobile stuff today. Sell the desktops tomorow.