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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. first by maliqua · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fuck beta

    1. Re:first by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Indeed, fuck the beta site.

      This could have been a good flame war, fun for all the family. Instead we have the beta site hanging over us, preventing half the fanbois from participating. Fuck the whole thing.

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  2. ateB kcuF by DaveRexel · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ateB kcuF ateB kcuF

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  3. Any way to disable beta? by mestar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Any way to disable beta?

    1. Re:Any way to disable beta? by tepples · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Universal Studios tried disabling beta, and it failed. But you can do better by searching (Ctrl+F) for the word "classic" near the bottom of this page.

  4. Since slashdot is now run by marketing... by MarkRose · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since slashdot is now run by marketing, why not let them know about the beta where they might listen? Slashdot Media on LinkedIn.

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  5. Don't care - Screw BETA by Adeptus_Luminati · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You cannot ignore us forever... soon enough we will ignore you.

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  6. What a perfect example of why beta is bad... by Daneurysm · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is absolutely astounding. This is one of the most absurd articles I have seen posted to /. in years...the amount of fanboy rage, absurd theories, wild conjecture, fallible prophesying....so much. This is such a juicy article. We have practically been waiting for this since the beginning of the iOS vs Android wars...

    ...and instead we have focused our efforts on drawing attention to the horrid design that is threatening our digital homestead.

    If that doesn't drive home the point that beta = bad, well, I just don't know what will.

    Flawless karma be damned, fuck beta.

    After over 15 years of this site being my home page I will simply walk away and never look back if the concerns of the user community are not taken into serious consideration. Slashdot is the community.