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posted by n1 on Thursday June 05 2014, @02:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the reality-distortion-field-is-impenetrable dept.

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."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by SlimmPickens on Thursday June 05 2014, @03:37AM

    by SlimmPickens (1056) on Thursday June 05 2014, @03:37AM (#51462)

    I'm not condoning this post but 'fag' is not a homophobic slur anymore.

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday June 05 2014, @04:38AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday June 05 2014, @04:38AM (#51492) Journal

    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

      by velex (2068) on Thursday June 05 2014, @01:22PM (#51651) Journal

      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

    by starcraftsicko (2821) on Thursday June 05 2014, @05:22AM (#51507) Journal

    Good point. [southparkstudios.com]

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