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Wozniak To Apple: Consider Building an Android Phone

Posted by samzenpus on from the building-with-the-enemy dept.

snydeq writes "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has some advice for Apple CEO Tim Cook: consider offering a phone based on the rival Google Android platform. Speaking at the Apps World conference in San Francisco, Wozniak made the suggestion of an Apple Android device when responding to a question about the fate of the faltering BlackBerry platform, saying that BlackBerry should have built an Android phone, and that Apple could do so, too. 'BlackBerry's very sad for me,' Wozniak lamented. 'I think it's probably too late now' for an Android-based BlackBerry phone. Apple, Woz said, has had some lucky victories in the marketplace in the past decade, and BlackBerry's demise may provide a cautionary tale: 'There's nothing to keep Apple out of the Android market as a secondary phone market.'"

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  1. WORST. BETA. EVER. by 2phar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    For a start, remove the MOVIN ON UP banner.

    Postpone any plan to 'migrate' people to the beta at this time and make it clear that you have.

    Go back and at least make sure all the current comments-handling functionality is in place on the new site before even thinking of trying it again. Run a story on the current site about the beta again when you have done that, and see how it's received in the comments [you know - the thing Slashdot excels at] before switching people over to it.

    Then again, the above only matters if you're concerned about keeping the current user base. That's open to question.