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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, Interesting) by RedBear on Thursday June 05 2014, @09:36AM

    by RedBear (1734) on Thursday June 05 2014, @09:36AM (#51560)

    Look, people, do we really need to flog this horse here? Do we really need to whip the Apple haters into a froth? There are so many other sites where we can wage this ridiculous platform war.

    The comment was meant as a joke, and was taken as a joke, in the middle of a WWDC keynote full of thousands of Apple developers. It was a dumb joke, but it's not like he was tweeting it out to the world as some kind of serious statement.

    I'd really love it if we could just stick to arguing about facts rather than constantly getting into the endless Apple hatred that other site was always steeped in. Why can't it just be OK that everyone buys whatever devices they like? Samsung and Microsoft have been running plenty of stuff directly calling Apple devices inferior and Apple users idiots. I didn't see anyone complaining about that.

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  • (Score: 1) by Paradise Pete on Friday June 06 2014, @02:51AM

    by Paradise Pete (1806) on Friday June 06 2014, @02:51AM (#52030)

    Well said. It's both amazing and disappointing how Soylent News turns into Slashdot by the mere posting of a joke.