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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: 5, Interesting) by tathra on Thursday June 05 2014, @03:17AM
i have an android phone and an ipod touch. throughout the years, i've found ipods to be the only decent mp3 player available (and hey cool, you can watch video on them now too), so since my old ipod nano finally broke, it was a given that i would be getting a new one. i have to say though, i really hate using iAnything. the only thing about it thats made me glad to have it, aside from being a good portable media player, is that Index finally released an official localization of the original Shin Megami Tensei for iOS but not android (though the virtual controls are so fucking terrible that i want to throw it through the wall). i dont want my portable media player to share batteries with my phone, since the whole point of a mobile is to be mobile, and you cant swap batteries with iDevices.
that whole knock about people not having the current version of android has nothing to do with android, its just telecomm companies being themselves and refusing to make things better for their customers, like refusing to upgrade infrastructure or service. if your cult is too stupid to direct their anger where it belongs, then good for you, but maybe that could end up benefiting us by forcing the companies to actually work on maintaining their products (haha yeah right).
(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday June 05 2014, @03:27AM
what's so hard about mp3 or music playing?
all reasonable players play mp3, flac and other formats. what do you need that isn't there?
this is not a hard problem. video can be hard. audio is trivially easy these days.
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(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday June 05 2014, @01:00PM
You have an Android phone, why do you need an iPod? Phones play MP3s (and videos) easily. I download oggs and MP3s to my phone easily; tethered, the phone looks like another drive to a computer. Files easily swapped, and you have a choice of players for your phone (I'm using Winamp but there are others as good and probably better).
I've run into no battery issues with my phone (which has a replaceable battery when the battery finally dies).
I can use wireless bluetooth speakers with my phone, can you do that with an iPod? Honestly, I thought iPods were pretty much obsoleted by smartphones.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by tathra on Friday June 06 2014, @09:15PM
partly just habit (i've had an ipod since they came out, and have tried other portable music players and they've all been junk with clunky interfaces); i was thinking about just getting another nano but figured i'd try a touch since you can make it function like a phone; and partly because i wanted to see what the big deal about them was that had people so obsessed. frankly, i cant figure out why people are so obsessed with them.
it is useful to have your media player separate from your phone though. the touch is practically weightless and really thin, whereas if it was an iphone it'd be as thick and heavy as my galaxy s3 (or if i used my s3 as my primary media player, the bulk and weight is really annoying, in addition to needing to recharge it more than once a day). i also need them separate because i occasionally (a lot less right now than before, but still) go places with really spotty cell service, which drains batteries FAST, and dont have the ability to recharge anything for 2-3 days at a time.