Steve Jobs Lashes Out At Android

Ponca City writes "Steve Jobs doesn't usually make a guest appearance on Apple's post-earnings conference calls with analysts, but this time he made an exception, attacking Google for marketing its operating system as 'open' versus Apple's 'closed' iOS. 'Google loves to characterize Android as "open" and iOS and iPhone as "closed." We find this a bit disingenuous, and clouding the real difference between our two approaches,' said Jobs. 'Android is very fragmented. Many Android [manufacturers], including the two largest, HTC and Motorola, install proprietary user interfaces to differentiate themselves from the commodity Android experience. The user's left to figure it out. Compare this to iPhone, where every handset works the same.' Jobs stated that the real debate is between 'fragmented versus integrated' and which is better for the consumer. 'When selling to users who want their devices to just work, we believe integrated will trump fragmented every time. And we also think our developers can be more innovative if they can target a singular platform rather than a hundred variants.' Jobs also criticized the Android Marketplace, pointing out that there are at least three other app stores being launched by vendors, causing confusion for users and work for developers. 'This is gonna be a mess for both users and developers,' Jobs said. 'Contrast this with Apple's integrated App Store, which offers users the easiest-to-use, largest app store in the world, preloaded on every iPhone.'"

Re:That's fine

[grub]

I refuse to use Android or iOS.

I didn't think either was an option on your Bakelite rotary dial phone.

Steve Jobs: Informercial Presenter

[eepok]

Tired all of those choices that TWO things can offer? Confused by those floaty things that enter your vision and then move away when you try to focus on them? Scared by things that don't outright hug you?

Then you should buy Apple!

Apple... for when thinking takes too much thought.

Re:That's fine

[maxwell demon]

I refuse to use Android or iOS.

I didn't think either was an option on your Bakelite rotary dial phone.

That's so typical. Just because you have an older phone, they don't support it.

Re:"Integrated" sounds better

[maxwell demon]

Actually it's quite easy to fragment an iPhone. You just have to throw it against the wall really hard. :-)

Re:God, Just Shut The Fuck Up

[tophermeyer]

Good. Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you.

Re:Jobs is babbling.

[Macrat]

Yes, because people have proven that having more than one drug store, supermarket, or fast food chain inevitably disorients them and fouls up their lives. Oh, wait.

The required car analogy.... Your Chevy will only let you drive to Walgreens, while your Ford will only let you drive to Rite Aid.

Re:Sensationalize much?

[lymond01]

Sometime in the late 80s I was watching the news and they kept using the term "fiery car crash" versus "traffic accident" in one news story. It literally went like this:

"This just in, a fiery car crash on I-95 has stopped traffic in both directions for miles. The cause of the fiery car crash is as yet unknown. Tom is live at the scene. Tom, what can you tell us about the fiery car crash?"

So it's fine that they're letting us know that it's "fiery" and all, but that was my first taste of true news sensationalism taking to an idiotic degree. It's continued ever since. And don't lash out at me to tell me it's always been like this. Even if you're just explaining your experience. ;-)

Re:God, Just Shut The Fuck Up

[Stregano]

LOL, nice. I need mod points to hook you up

Please Close

[albiorixza]

The only thing that's open about Apple is Steve Jobs's mouth...to be perfectly honest, I'd prefer "closed" in this particular case :)

Re:Next up: straightjackets vs. utility belts

[elrous0]

Yes, but it's a very pretty straightjacket. It's the kind of straightjacket you can wear into a coffeehouse and let everyone know "I'm no poseur." It's not very warm, but you'll be smug as a bug in the warm self-satisfaction that comes with knowing you're better than everyone else.

Re:Jobs is babbling.

[Cryolithic]

did you really * out ARSEHOLE but leave in fuck and cocksucker???

Re:Creator and Overseer of Android Responds

[Anonymous Coward]

What exactly is "make install" supposed to do when building Android..?

Add it to the boot menu of the N900 that you're using to compile Android. Duh! What, your phone doesn't have git, make and gcc on it?

Re:Next up: straightjackets vs. utility belts

[Anonymous Coward]

My god... it's like voting in America. Everyone complains that both sides have all the same flaws, but no one is willing to admit that there's more than two options.

Like the new Windows phone!