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Woz Misquoted About Android Dominating iOS

Posted by timothy on from the too-not-good-to-be-true dept.

bonch writes "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's quote that Android would dominate over iOS was widely covered by the tech press, but after seeking clarification, Engadget reports that Wozniak was misquoted by Dutch paper De Telegraaf. 'Almost every app that I have is better on the iPhone,' says Woz, claiming that he would never say that Android was better than iOS. 'I'm not trying to put Android down, but I'm not suggesting it's better than iOS by any stretch of the imagination. But it can get greater marketshare and still be crappy.' Woz has an Engadget account and has posted further comments to the linked article."

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  1. Quantity != Quality by scdeimos · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    This is one thing I can agree with Jobs on:

    But it can get greater marketshare and still be crappy.

    Thus, Windows.

  2. Re:Founder of Apple realizes what he said by Miamicanes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > You know a lot of people have turned the price of a Mac and their $99 Developer Program expenses into a shit ton of cash.

    I think it's more an act of pure revulsion that you're forced to join the Church of Steve by purchasing a fairly expensive computer you abhor as the condition of developing software for the iPhone, and THEN play "Mother, May I?" to get his proxied blessing (that has nothing to do with quality or content, and everything to do with it being "family-friendly", bland, and uncontroversial. Want to create an app that lets you go into the restroom, dust something a girl you just met at the bar touched for fingerprints, photograph them, instantly identify her from it, and read reviews posted by others about her performance in bed? I can guarantee there won't *ever* be a blessed iPhone app for it... but you'll probably find something comparable for Android by the middle of next summer. The world will never see "iSlut", but will almost certainly have "mySlut" before long, if only as a joke ;-)

    The day iPhones officially allow users to freely download and install unblessed apps (with a cute extension that implies sin, like ".eve"), I'll begin to respect iOS.