SoylentNews
SoylentNews is people
https://soylentnews.org/

Hugh Pickens writes:

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."

1. "Hugh Pickens" - http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
2. ""They had bought an Android phone... by mistake,"" - http://bgr.com/2014/06/03/cook-on-android-fragmentation-and-malware/
3. "Android's vulnerability to malware" - http://bgr.com/2014/05/21/ibanking-android-malware-explained/
4. ""Android fragmentation is turning devices into a toxic hellstew of vulnerabilities."" - http://www.zdnet.com/android-fragmentation-turning-devices-into-a-toxic-hellstew-of-vulnerabilities-7000028342/

printed from SoylentNews, Apple CEO Says Users Buy an Android 'By Mistake' on 2024-04-25 17:56:33