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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 05 2014, @05:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 05 2014, @05:02PM (#51798)

    I have not yet, although my wife had some add popup thing start showing up. I think it was caused by an app that turned evil with an update (I put a free Android anti-virus program on it and it flagged/removed the app and stopped the problem.)
    You basically have to realize that modern operating systems are so complex that there will always be a vulnerability hiding somewhere, so your only hope is to have a way to fix them as they are found.

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  • (Score: 2) by EvilJim on Thursday June 05 2014, @11:25PM

    by EvilJim (2501) on Thursday June 05 2014, @11:25PM (#51963) Journal

    Thanks, so that's one positive report. I don't randomly install stuff like women tend to do so I guess that helps. ;)