Eh, better than the last go around on the topic. There is a cultural difference between the two. iOS does get a boost from the Mac culture: users tend to be affluent and very engaged in their devices. And those people are more likely to plunk down cash for apps. Gruber himself caters to and makes his money off this audience (funnily enough, from advertising more than selling product, but that is off topic). But I am with Wilson. The app ecomony is going to be like the web's. Cause paid software does not work for the masses. It works for enterprise, it works for the niches like gamers and Mac users, but it will not scale. You can already see this in the App Store's pricing race to the bottom. And if the iOS line is going to be more like the iPod than the Mac, the paid app ecomony is going to be seen as an amusing relic in a few years.

Also, I do not get why Gruber plays dumb about Angry Birds' profitablity on Android when that report about Rovio hitting about $1M/month on Android was on every tech site over the last few days.