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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: 2) by evilviper on Saturday June 07 2014, @06:09PM

    by evilviper (1760) on Saturday June 07 2014, @06:09PM (#52678) Homepage Journal

    You shouldn't have to get that desperate. Even smaller carriers have at least one slider with 4.x. I've stayed away from RepublicWireless because of their selection of one non-slider phone, but anybody larger than them should have something decent... even if re-certified.

    Previously, physical keyboards made up 30% of phone sales. Not sure what the penetration is now, but manufacturers ignore the market at their own peril.

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  • (Score: 1) by jpkunst on Saturday June 07 2014, @07:24PM

    by jpkunst (2310) on Saturday June 07 2014, @07:24PM (#52728)

    I'm in Europe, I have a prepaid SIMcard, so I need an unlocked phone. And over here an Android with physical keyboard turned out to be hard to find.