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There’s an old saying, “When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” For Henry Blodget of Business Insider, perhaps we should change it to “When all you have is a comparison between Windows and Mac OS from the 1980s, every situation looks like a repeat.”

In an article entitled Hey, Apple, Wake Up from January 5th, 2010, Mr. Blodget compared the “iPhone vs Android” market to “Mac OS vs Windows” of the 1980s. I missed the article the first time, but that turns out to be OK because 6 months later (almost to the day) he’s written the same article again, but this time with a chart!

Featuring a headline that couldn’t be any more link-baiting if it included LeBron James’ free agency choice or Lindsay Lohan’s ice cream card, This Android Chart Should Scare the Bejesus Out of Apple rehashes what is almost exactly the same article (“NEW AND IMPROVED! NOW CONTAINS REFERENCES TO THE iPad!”) and ends with a chart showing “Percent Of Developers That Have Developed For Each Mobile Platform” showing Android in the lead over iPhone/iOS.

The body of the article links not once but twice to his previous article, plus a callout box to his previous article (which also links to another article about the same chart), and at the end of the article, in case you missed it, there is a “See Also” link which will bring you back to — wait for it — the same article he wrote back in January.

Memo to H. Blodget: Saying the same thing over and over again does not automagically grant it the mantle of truth.

TUAWBusinessInsider insists Android is the new Windows. Again. originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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