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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) by axsdenied on Thursday June 05 2014, @06:58AM
I thought the original nexus did not get the latest Android because hardware is not good enough to run it.
And if you really want to run 4.x.x, get CM11. It runs on your phone.
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday June 05 2014, @02:03PM
there is not enough memory for the BLOAT that the fools added to android. that and the fact that the video system is 'not fast enough' (?) to support new additions. that's the official word I heard.
2 yrs ago there was talk about a real google project to reduce the mem footprint and allow new os's to be ported down to older phones, but that never happened. again, there's no money in supporting older phones. the carriers and sellers want to re-sell things to you and google is part of that ecosystem.
they simply did not maintain multiple trees and backport the security stuff (at a minimum) to the older source trees.
it reall astonishes me. the highest amount of brainpower in the bay area (they say so..) and yet they abandon their flagship with showstopper bugs.
there was a time I respected the intellect of the folks at google. but after seeing how they trash projects and ruin most of the things they touch, I feel the complete opposite now. very book-smart people but poor leadership and such a lack of experience in the world (they are all SO young) that they simply CANNOT be the company they all aspire to be. its just yet another group of youngsters with too much money and too many distractions to keep them stimulated. old ideas like 'support' mean nothing to them and they could not care less.
I never expected apple to continue to support old phones. but the promise of linux WAS that upgrades can come and won't be limited by the vendor. but in reality, they don't come and they are limited by the vendor, just the same as apple.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."