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.'"

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Re: where every handset works the same

[theaveng]

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Someone lacks a sense of humor. What part of "just a joke" did you people not understand? I wish I was a moderator. I thought it was +1 Funny.

Re:Jobs is babbling.

[Bill_the_Engineer]

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.

I have only one Google Marketplace on my phone but the prices are in different world currencies. I have more than one drug store, supermarket, and fast food chain near me most of the time, and they ALWAYS give their prices in my LOCAL currency. Apple's App Store is the same way.

Google's Marketplace needs more work before it can approach the user experience given by Apple's App Store.

Re:Next up: straightjackets vs. utility belts

[node 3]

Nielsen: Android market share eclipses iPhone

Another Apple myth tossed out.....

In the US, and not iOS but just iPhone. Worldwide iPhone outsells Android phones, and even in the US, iOS outsells outsells Android. And overall market share, iOS is far ahead at 120 million devices sold.

It's sad that Slashdot is so ill-informed that something so woefully false is so widely believed. Fanboyism is funny that way. It doesn't only apply to those you disagree with, you gotta watch out for it in yourself.

Android provides choice.

Yes it does. Not as much choice as some people like to pretend, but it certainly offers more choice in hardware.

With iPhone, your choices are .... how much memory do you want. Wow .. thanks for understanding exactly what I want in a phone Steve. But your ESP is off, I like using memory cards and having accessible batteries and keyboards.

Given the exceptional success of the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, I'd say his "ESP" is spot on. It failed for you, and that's fine. But it certainly has succeeded far beyond the competition.

The rest of the crap you talked about being the 'strength' of Apple doesn't mean diddly squat. My HTC phone worked out of the box, always has. It has never frozen up. I've never been 'confused' about apps.

I never said any of those things.

And I like sorting out all the different phone options.

Hooray for you.

In fact, I DEMAND to have the choice.

And I "DEMAND" quality. Fortunately there are products that cater to both of us.

Oh wait .. I did...

I didn't pick an iPhone.

Again, hooray for you. As long as you like the product you bought, what's it to me? Unlike the Android fanboys, I don't get all worked up if someone else decides they like the phone system I didn't buy. I won't put you down for it, I won't make fun of you or your phone. What I *won't* let go unchallenged, however, is all the bullshit you fanboys spew forth. You get simple facts like market share wrong, and wildly exaggerate things like "openness" and "choice". I'm glad those things have such great meaning for you, but any pretense that the market cares even half as much as you do about these things is delusion.

I rarely read replies, so don't assume you won your argument just because I don't respond....

Wow, what a douche.

Re:They are for two different people

[SiChemist]

Android is also more popular with people that don't want to use the steaming pile of crap that is iTunes.