Wozniak To Apple: Consider Building an Android Phone

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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Re:why oh why malda

[sexconker]

Why did you leave slashdot in the hands of bunch of marketing soulless faggots who created Beta
Fuck beta

Because he needed both hands - one for the magnifying glass and one for the tweezers - to find his micro penis.

Fuck Android

[Tailhook]

and Fuck Beta too.

Why would Apple downgrade from iOS to Android? Android works, but iOS is superior, and I say that as a loyal Nexus S/4/5 buyer. I don't even own an iPhone/whatever, but I know Objective-C/iOS/Xcode is an inherently better platform than Android's development stack; it's faster, more stable and easier to target.

Apple doesn't make a lot of bonehead maneuvers and, unlike Dice's attitude towards their CONTRIBUTORS, I expect they value their customers too much to inflict an obvious fail like that.

Sorry Woz, but I think Apple will, and probably should, remain the semi-boutique alternative that it has always been.

As for Slashdot Beta... well, they better take a few steps back and start listening to their contributors; forums are really easy to make. This crufty little corner of the Internets still punches above its weight with genuine nerds, but they're a fickle bunch and they're pissed off something fierce. Mea culpa time; suck it up, find a grown-up on the payroll that knows how to be sincere and has the authority to un-fuck this deal and get him in front of this.

Or not. It's your choice.