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Chris Smith writes that Apple CEO Tim Cook, speaking during the WWDC 2014 opening keynote, took clear hits at his company's main rival, making fun of Google's Android several times. "Over 130 million customers who bought an iOS device in the past 12 months, were buying their first iOS device," Cook said. "Now, many of these customers were switchers from Android." "They had bought an Android phone... by mistake," Cook added, igniting the crowd in attendance, "and then sought a better experience, and a better life, and decided to check iPhone and iOS." Cook went on to say that nearly half of Apple's customers in China in the past six months came from Android.
Cook took another hit at Google for its fragmentation issues. "If you look at a broader group, over a third of [Android] customers, are running a version of Android from four years ago," Cook said. "That's like ancient history." Cook also addressed Android's vulnerability to malware. "Android dominates the mobile malware market," the exec said, because of its fragmentation. "No wonder experts are saying things like this," Cook said, quoting ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: "Android fragmentation is turning devices into a toxic hellstew of vulnerabilities."
(Score: 1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday June 05 2014, @02:42AM
Trigger Warning: This post contains homophobic slurs
Tim Cook's little pep rally is rather silly. It sounds ridiculously juvenile, as if he's trying to rile up the varsity Peoria High Panthers before their big game against the Bloomington High Badgers.
But what's even sillier is that many people go Android because they want smartphone functionality without marking themselves as effeminate, materialistic faggots everytime they pull their phones out in public. And, make no mistake about it, Apple is the preferred brand of the "new sensitive man."
Yeah, go ahead and throw rocks at my school bus after the game, it doesn't change the fact that we still kicked your asses at football.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Nerdfest on Thursday June 05 2014, @02:52AM
WWDC has always been a pep rally for the faithful, with tons of free advertising provided by tech sites. Yeah, Apple was traditionally the realm of the art school crowd, but at this point it's really just the 'default' choice. It's what people go to when they don't want to decide what hardware or features they want. I'm fine with that as long as their market share remains small. It was looking for a while that they might control enough of the market to push things in a very bad direction for those of us that want to be able to actually own the hardware we buy. It's really a little too high still in North America for my comfort, but at least there's hope.
(Score: 3, Informative) by SlimmPickens on Thursday June 05 2014, @03:37AM
I'm not condoning this post but 'fag' is not a homophobic slur anymore.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday June 05 2014, @04:38AM
I think he was referring to the "materialistic" part. Faggots are usually quite materialistic, and this is frowned upon by . . . . OK, I give up. Ethanol Failed.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by velex on Thursday June 05 2014, @01:22PM
Faggot here. I think I rather like that post. He did give a trigger warning, like the feminists requested! And it does kind of make sense that Apple is preferred by the new "sensitive man" aka white knight aka "One Good Man." The only Ethanol Fail was giving a trigger warning for homosexuals, demonstrating a conflation of the brand of politically correct that the feminists are demanding with simply accepting that some assigned males are feminine by nature, god damn it, and further conflating that with homosexuality. But maybe that was the point of the sarcasm.
Nevermind, it's time for me to take a break and go light up a fag. Karma to burn, etc. brb.
(Score: 3, Funny) by starcraftsicko on Thursday June 05 2014, @05:22AM
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday June 05 2014, @04:07AM
Heh. Basically what you just said, but probably didn't mean to, is that Android fans are really really worried about what their phone says about them. Nice argument.
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday June 05 2014, @04:46PM
Basically what you just said, but probably didn't mean to, is that Android fans are really really worried about what their phone says about them.
Except that it's completely false IMO. Most Android users just get Android phones because they're super cheap; you can get them free with contracts these days. Any "fans" probably only like them because they're not Apple products.
Personally, I'm a big Linux fan, but for me, I only grudgingly tolerate Android. It was a good idea, but the execution has been terrible. They don't perform very well, and they're horribly inconsistent. The carriers and mfgrs don't support models more than 6 months old, because they just want you to buy a new one, and Google either doesn't care or is powerless to change this. The only really great thing about Android is that it uses a Linux kernel. Everything else is shoddy. But unfortunately, the options aren't any better. iPhone is made by a control-freak corporation with even worse ethics than Google, and only lets you do things in The One True Apple Way (tm) using their horrible iTunes software. And Windows Phone is, well, after decades of being forced to use MS products I'm not about to pay good money for a phone from them. Blackberry might be a consideration except that they always look like they're on the verge of bankruptcy.
(Score: 2) by everdred on Thursday June 05 2014, @10:09PM
You bring up good points, and there's much that frustrates me about Android, especially when someone asks me which device they should buy.
But there are some other nice things about it to keep in mind:
- In a pinch, you can walk into most stores and buy a decent, sub-$100 (or even sub-$50) contract-free phone with a somewhat-recent version of Android.
- If you don't like Google, you can replace just everything Google-related without replacing the ROM. Set whatever apps you want as your defaults, or disable Google the apps entirely. Use a third-party app store, or no app store thanks to sideloading.
- Custom ROMs (if you have a somewhat popular device) if you really want to tweak stuff, or if your manufacturer has dropped support for your device. YMMV in the latter, though.
- There's a choice of hardware. Sure there's only be a small handful of devices at any given time that *anyone* should even consider buying, but there's a choice.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday June 05 2014, @12:46PM
E.F shows his true homophobic colors (many of his posts are racist as well).
People don't choose Android "by mistake" and they don't choose it to not look effeminate (when are you coming out of the closet, EF?). They choose it because of cost, because of Apple's "walled garden", and I personally perceive Apples to be more fragile than most handsets, because most of the phones with broken screens I see are iPhone (of course, it may simply be because iPhones are so expensive they can't afford new ones).
Some choose Android to install a variant of the OS.
Cook's claim of "fragmentation" is silly. It's the same bullshit spewed about Linux. Choice is a GOOD thing. I can choose a cheap $50 Android with a 5 megapixel camera or a high end Samsung with three times the resolution. Apple customers have no such choice.
I would say buying an iPhone is by mistake unless you just want to impress people with the size of your wallet.
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