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• » Android & iPhone App Design: Is it twice the work? Johnny Holland – It’s all about interaction » Blog Archive – A very interesting article detailing the difference in interaction models between the iPhone and Android phones
• IT BEGINS: Apple’s iPads Are Invading The Corporate Market And Killing Microsoft’s Laptops – A lot of corporate buzz over iPads recently, this is good news
• Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Explored and Explained by Pianist and Music Historian David Dubal – WSJ.com – An interesting bit of background on Chopin’s preludes.

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• Yahoo! ‘Delivers’ Mail Optimized for iPad | Y! Mobile Blog – One of the better html5 iPad apps I’ve seen to date, even works pretty well offline.
• Price of porting iPhone applications to Android and its adaptation for iPad | The VIactivity Team(Danex Solutions Inc). Iphone, iPad, Android software solutions – Quite a good overview of the cost of porting iPhone apps to Android and iPad
• Apple rejecting apps that require user registration first? – Let’s hope this isn’t a sign of things to come

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• Kindle and iPad Displays: Up close and personal. | BIT-101 – I didn’t think to take such a close look at a Kindle
• Macsimum News – Greg’s bite: How to publish an Apple iBook – How to publish your own book onto iBooks
• How Oracle might kill Google’s Android and software patents all at once — RoughlyDrafted Magazine – You want a conspiracy theory about how Oracle is planning a death wish for Google – here it is
• Straight Dope on the IPod’s Birth – Fascinating article detailing the conception and birth of the iPod
• Snow Leopard: This Cat Has Fleas – An interesting discussion of some serious bugs that still exist in OS X 10.6 or Snow Leopard
• Mail.app: Showing my sent messages in thread view – Super User – Jeez that’s a useful tip!

This article has a great comparison between iPhone and Android development.  It breaks down all aspects of development including:

• language, model and platform
• testing and continuous integration
• resources and tooling
• IDE
• UI builder
• debugger
• profiler and heap analysis
• appstore/sales

An excellent rebuttal to this article can be read here.