Yeah, wanting to stop a cheap, utilitarian, "just-barely-good-enough", glitchy, buggy, virus-ridden copy of something your company spent years and millions of dollars on...what a total dick.
/sarcasm
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Yeah, wanting to stop a cheap, utilitarian, "just-barely-good-enough", glitchy, buggy, virus-ridden copy of something your company spent years and millions of dollars on...what a total dick.
/sarcasm
I like the attitude. A lot.
Android is essentially the PC of mobile devices. I think that in order to "destroy" Android, iOS is going to need a feature that Android simply can't mimic, and with that, something that changes everything, again. Which, no doubt, is what Steve left the big
in the four year plan.
And Steve smiles down on his legacy...
Android is essentially the PC of mobile devices. I think that in order to "destroy" Android, iOS is going to need a feature that Android simply can't mimic, and with that, something that changes everything, again. Which, no doubt, is what Steve left the big
in the four year plan. And Steve smiles down on his legacy...
It's apparent you've either never used an Android phone, or you've never used an iOS device. That's the only way I could explain away such an ignorant statement.
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And you're comparing this to... what exactly? The iPhone that had flash on it and had terrible battery life? All the phones that I've owned that had flash compatibility on them had perfectly comparable battery life to an iPhone. Flash is terrible, though, nobody is arguing that.
As much as he hated Android, it's been great for competition.
Side note: it looks like the memorial is officially over. Steve no longer graces the Apple front page.
Side note: it looks like the memorial is officially over. Steve no longer graces the Apple front page.
doesn't google have to give George Lucas a nickel every time they say "android"?
Even the freaking name is stollen. Don't get me wrong, I think android has some strengths. But it is hard to deny that the original android was a direct rip off of the original iPhone OS.
Even the freaking name is stollen. Don't get me wrong, I think android has some strengths. But it is hard to deny that the original android was a direct rip off of the original iPhone OS.
I've used both. In fact, in my house, there is an Android phone (my wife's Nexus S) and my iPhone 4S.
I've used both extensively. I've used versions of Android dating back to near the beginning.
It's a cheap knock-off of a beautiful product.
You can't deny what Android was originally going to be. It was designed as a BlackBerry clone, but once the iPhone was released, Google decided "Hey! This new OS looks great! Let's copy that one instead!" And they did.
Anyone who actually denies that Android was made as a cheap copy of iOS is ... well, I don't know what they could be.
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Anyone who cannot see that Schmidt sat on the Apple board and hoovered up ideas from the iPhone project is blind.
Google bought Android and after quitting the Apple board, Schmidt set about implementing the ideas he had seen in action on the iPhone project.
Steve wasn't stupid, he knew Schmidt had ripped Apple off, which is why the iPad, in it's earliest form, was hidden from Schmidt.
Anyone who cannot see that Schmidt sat on the Apple board and hoovered up ideas from the iPhone project is blind.
Google bought Android and after quitting the Apple board, Schmidt set about implementing the ideas he had seen in action on the iPhone project.
Steve wasn't stupid, he knew Schmidt had ripped Apple off, which is why the iPad, in it's earliest form, was hidden from Schmidt.
I am tired of people whining about not getting a new design. The iPhone 4/4S is by far the best looking phone on the market.
Do please tell me exactly which parts of the OS were "stolen". Specifics, not generalities. This is the same Apple that claims any kind of ownership of "colorful icons arranged in a grid". His word is not exactly gold in this matter, and his feeling slighted is irrelevant.
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Really, to think that any product isn't derivative in some ways of other products, seems irrational. Certainly Jobs deserved to be proud of everything the iPhone accomplished and to be peeved that there was a strong competitor who used some of its ideas. But rather that accept that competition would help drive Apple to make an even better product, the quote as expressed seems kind of like jousting at windmills. I am sure more context in the book will cast this incident in a somewhat different light.
Really, to think that any product isn't derivative in some ways of other products, seems irrational. Certainly Jobs deserved to be proud of everything the iPhone accomplished and to be peeved that there was a strong competitor who used some of its ideas. But rather that accept that competition would help drive Apple to make an even better product, the quote as expressed seems kind of like jousting at windmills. I am sure more context in the book will cast this incident in a somewhat different light.
Wow, girl. You needs to do some research.
Oh wait, I'm sure you somehow always wind up with the magical Android phones that magically never have any of the battery problems that the rest of them do. Yeah, that's gotta be it. It couldn't possibly be that you're full of crap and trying to convince people to ignore the facts.
